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  History
Famous mining center were Trepca, Novo Brdo and Janjevo, out of which in the 15 century Novo Brdo had become one of the most important mining centers of the Balkans.
Serbian Orthodox Church has played a major role in the of the Serbian people and the Balkans in general.
With the eviction of the Serbian and Montenegrin population, Albanians from Albania and Turkey were settled in the region.
www.kosovo.net /hist.html   (10027 words)

  
  serbia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The Republic of Serbia (in Serbian Србија or Srbija) is a republic in south-eastern Europe, which is united with Montenegro in a loose commonwealth known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
St Sava's Nomocanon, Dusan's Code, frescoes and the architecture of the medival monasteries adorning Serbian lands are eternal civilizational monuments of the Serbian people.
The Serbian Army bravely defended its country and won several major victories, but it was finally overpowered by the joint forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and had to withdraw from the national territory marching across the Albanian mountain ranges to the Adriatic Sea.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5091 words)

  
 Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The medieval Serbian state was re-formed in the Raška region in the 12th century by the Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja.
The First Serbian Uprising of 1804-1813, led by Đorđe Petrović (also known as Karađorđe or "Black George"), and the Second Serbian Uprising of 1815 resulted in the establishment of the Principality of Serbia.
From 1815 to 1903, the Serbian state was ruled by the House of Obrenović, except from 1842 to 1858, when Serbia was ruled by Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbia   (3049 words)

  
 Serbia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Republic of Serbia (in Serbian Република Србија or Republika Srbija) is a republic in south-eastern Europe which is united with Montenegro in a loose commonwealth known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The next generation of Serbian rulers - the sons of Stefan Prvovencani - Radoslav, Vladislav and Uros I, marked a period of stagnation of the state structure.
After two years of struggle, trying to reform a destroyed country and fighting with people who were afraid of the changes that the new Prime Minister applied, Djindjic was assassinated in Belgrade on March 122003 by assailants believed to be connected with organized crime.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5369 words)

  
 News -  26-1-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Sava brings into the life of the newly-formed Serbian Diocese purity of the relationship between the faithful and citizens, between a national state and a nation of a state, and in the end between general and personal…Both have given to a Serb the ability to stay, in his spiritual sphere of life, free from foreigners.
Today, when we celebrate the Angel of the Serbian Church and of the Serbian people, we feel that he is among us, and that his beauty, the beauty of the most beautiful Serbian child and the most beloved Serbian saint, remained unchanged.
Serbian people will live as long as it has visions, because the people without visions is destined to fail.
www.spc.org.yu /News/26-1-00_e1.html   (807 words)

  
 THE MEDIÆVAL SERBIAN EMPIRE
Our judgments of the Balkan peoples are often harsh and unjust, because we do not realise the historic fact that they stepped straight out of the fifteenth century into the nineteenth (and in some cases into the twentieth), like Plato's cave-dwellers who emerged suddenly from darkness into the full light of day.
For the rest of the tenth century Serbian history is a blank, save for the survival of the leaden seal with a Greek inscription belonging to a Prince of Diokleia, the country called after the town of Doclea, whose ruins still stand near Podgoritza.
Still more famous was Vukashin, guardian and cup-bearer of the young Tsar, who drove his master from the throne in I366, and assumed the title of king, with the government of the specially Serbian lands and Prizren as his capital.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/MillSerb.html   (4883 words)

  
 Canvas > Serbian Case > Non-Violent Conflict in Serbia
First anti-governmental protests in front of National TV building, Famous Serbian writer and one of the founders of Democratic Party, mr Borislav Pekic injured in police violence against the protesters.
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic accommodated to pressure, organizing the series of negotiations with opposition leaders, and finally called for an early elections.
Protests continue as the Serbian economy deteriorates further and in spite of a government propaganda initiative to rebuild Serbia.
www.canvasopedia.org /content/serbian_case/nvc-serbia.htm   (1891 words)

  
 Milosevic's Speech in Kosovo - 1989
The concessions that many Serbian leaders made at the expense of their people could not be accepted historically and ethically by any nation in the world, especially because the Serbs have never in the whole of their history conquered and exploited others.
In the memory of the Serbian people, this disunity was decisive in causing the loss of the battle and in bringing about the fate which Serbia suffered for a full 6 centuries.
This year, the Serbian people became aware of the necessity of their mutual harmony as the indispensable condition for their present life and further development.
www.tenc.net /milo/milosaid.html   (2462 words)

  
 Interview with Mihajlo Markovic, former vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia
Mihajlo Markovic, member of the Serbian Academy of Science and until 1995 the vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, was one of the ideological leaders of that party.
People in this so-called left party were there just to enrich themselves further, and to gain perhaps some political position on the top of everything by which to protect their capital.
But people who engaged themselves in “the change,” and voted for it under the supposition “it can’t be worse than it is already” will soon see that it certainly can.
www.iacenter.org /bosnia/yugo_markovic.htm   (2837 words)

  
 Famous People - celebrity and historical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In the spring of 1896, the Serbian Mileva Maric (an acquaintance of Nikola Tesla) started initially as a medical student at the University of Zurich, but after a term switched to the same section as Einstein as the only woman that year to study for the same diploma.
In the early 1920s Einstein was the lead figure in a famous weekly physics colloquium at the University of Berlin.
Though he is now most famous for his work on relativity, it was for his earlier work on the photoelectric effect that he was given the Prize, as his work on general relativity was still disputed.
www.famouspeople.com /famous_biographies/Albert_Einstein.htm   (4501 words)

  
 Serbia
Having defeated the Serbian army in two crucial battles: on the banks of the river Marica in Đurađ Branković, who moved the capital north — to the newly built fortified town of Smederevo.
In 7 an ephemeral independent Serbian state existed in the territory of present day "Emperor" Jovan Nenad and capital city of his state was Subotica.
Another important episode in Serbian history took place in 18, when the Serbian ethnic territories ranging from Dalmatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina to Belgrade and the Danube basin newly became the battleground for a new Austria-Turkish war launched by Prince Eugene of Savoy.
www.med-help.info /?p=Serbia   (3537 words)

  
 Republika Srpska - Famous Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
On January 9, 1992, the Bosnian Serb Assembly adopted a declaration on the Proclamation of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska Bosne i Hercegovine).
The Bosnian Serb Army, supported by the Yugoslav People's Army, maintained and expanded the borders of Republika Srpska during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia.
The new army immediately set out to achieve by military means the six "strategic objectives" of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the goals of which were reaffirmed by an operational directive issued by General Mladic on November 19, 1992).
www.famous.tc /RS.html   (1083 words)

  
 Diocese of Western America | History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Later, as the medieval kingdom of Serbia grew in size and prestige and Stefan Dusan, king of Serbia from 1331, assumed the imperial title of tsar in 1346 to 1355, the Archbishopric of Pec was correspondingly raised to the rank of Patriarchate.
The Serbian Patriarchate was restored in 1557 by the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Macarios, brother of the famous Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic was elected Patriarch in Pec.
www.westsrbdio.org /history   (685 words)

  
 Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Whenever Ludvík finds himself in a group of people, he always wonders how many of them would be willing to send their fellow mortals to death, only because the collective has demanded this.
There are also eerie parallels with the Serbian war in the way media commentators celebrated the Gulf War as a "victory for the psyche", achieved by George Bush, who was "one tough son of a bitch" (Boston Globe).
Just eight years later, the "famous victory" can be clearly seen for what it was, a massacre, while the idea that the slaughter was about anything other than oil falls somewhere between laughable and cringe-making.
www.independent-bangladesh.com /news/oct/22/22102005ft.htm   (10103 words)

  
 Serbian bishop condemns NATO troops in Kosovo
The Serbian Orthodox bishop of Kosovo told the Orthodox faithful in Aliquippa last night that the NATO peace-keeping mission has been a disaster for Kosovo's Serbian minority, as NATO troops turn a blind eye to violence against Serbs.
A disciple of a famous holy man during Yugoslavia's communist era, he was ordained in 1964 and did post-graduate studies in Greece.
Artemije called for the Serbian people to repent sins committed under communism and to admit that all of the misery in their land was caused by Milosevic's regime.
www.post-gazette.com /headlines/20000223bishop3.asp   (721 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church: In Genocide We Believe, Not God
Serbian people, and thereby paved the way for Belgrades war for a Greater Serbian state.
Yes, he was in favour of peace and love among people, but only among people: that did not apply to beasts with human faces.
When in April 1993 the Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia was announced, the Serbian Patriarch Pavel, and Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro, urged the Serbs to reject the plan and to press for a just military solution.
www.geocities.com /famous_bosniaks/english/serbian_orthodox_church.html   (1543 words)

  
 Talk:Serbian - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
I'm studying Serbian in the Republika Srpska of Bosnia where the ijekavski dialect is used, but with mostly Serbian grammar and vocabulary.
As for the dialects, I think it is generally accepted that Ekavski is the main dialect of Serbian (and Serbia) while Ijekavski is that of Croatian; Serbian newspapers and websites use the Ekavica dialect, for example.
Plus, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the most famous Serbian linguist, creator of the Modern Serbian language, was using Ijekavski dialect.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Talk:Serbian   (606 words)

  
 Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
ТIn this tragedy, the Serbian people are cast in the role of the victim.
This battle was the historical turning point dividing the history of the Serbian people into the pre-Battle of Kosovo and the post-Battle of Kosovo periods.
The profound meaning with which the Battle of Kosovo was invested in the consciousness of the Serbian people is rooted in the conscious choice made by Prince Lazar and all his knights and through them by the entire Serbian people.
www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws /01newstucture/pagesen/news04/kosovo.html   (1193 words)

  
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Olga Ivanovna Lazovich was a Serbian born in Montenegro in 1898, part of the previous Yugoslavia.
She was the grand daughter of a famous Serbian/Montenegrin writer, tribe leader, Montenegrin duke and hero Marko Miljanov.
Our famous writer, tribe leader, Montenegrin duke and hero Marko Miljanov lived at the foot of walls of the town and the fortress.
www.teslasociety.com /wright.htm   (649 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Serbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
}} Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Република Србија, Latin: Republika Srbija, {{AudioRepublika Srbija.ogglisten}}), is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe, covering the central part of the Balkan Peninsula and the southern part of the Pannonian Plain.
Despite the fact that Serbia fought wars on territories of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, it remained peaceful inside itself until 1998.
{{fact}}.]] Between 1998 and 1999, continued clashes in Kosovo between Serbian and Yugoslav security forces and the K.L.A. prompted a NATO aerial bombardment which lasted for 78 days.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Serbia   (3125 words)

  
 NIKOLA TESLA: THE GREAT SERBIAN-AMERICAN INVENTOR
Tesla, who came from a Serbian background within Croatia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was exposed, from his early childhood, to the values of the Serbian Orthodox Church, poetry, folk-dancing, story-telling, and the celebration of saint's days.
Most people tend to attribute the birth of the radio to early technologists who made refinements, but it was Tesla who laid down the foundation.
Nikola Tesla is honored and respected by the Serbian people.
www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/EE/Yugoslavia/tesla.html   (1633 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Serbian People’s Party has organized a scientific and expert conference on the theme The Serbian People in Montenegro: Affirmation of the national issue and defense of human rights to be held in Podgorica on August 21-22, 2004.
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle served Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the monastery of Banjska near Zvecan in northern Kosovo.
Similar in character is the famous Proglasenje Dusanovog carstva (The Coronation of the Emperor Dushan) painted in 1990 for which won first prize at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900.
www.spc.org.yu /Vesti-2004/08/18-8-04-e.html   (3103 words)

  
 Regents Prep Global History & Geography: Famous People Vocabulary List
He is considered by Jewish people as the father of the Israelites through his son Isaac, and by Muslims as the father of Arab peoples through his son Ishmael.
Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
Pol Pot is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to starvation, execution, and beatings.
regentsprep.org /Regents/global/vocab/topic.cfm?topic=q   (4692 words)

  
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Serbian monks found shelter and lived in the existing Greek, Russian, Bulgarian or Georgian monasteries, or eventually lived in caves, leading the life of a solitary or hermit.
The most wonderful element in the legacy of the monks Sava and Simeon son and father was their joint effort to bring to the Serbian nation a spiritual center in which prayer and committed Christian life would be the eternal flame and vigil lamp guiding the Serbian people to the Kingdom of God.
Hence, the idea of a Serbian monastery on the Holy Mountain became a reality when father became obedient to son, when both of these spiritual pillars of the Serbian people became totally dedicated to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Holy Orthodoxy.
www.sv-luka.org /articles/svsavazitijeen.htm   (6632 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
When he was asked whether he feared nationalism, war, and the other things that characterized the early 1990s, he sad that what he fears the most are primitive people.
The problem is with people like you who attack the faith and God.
Amfilohije himself compared [the role of] Radovan Karadzic as the "guardian" of his people with [that of 19th-century linguist and author] Vuk Karadzic as the preserver of our language.
www.rferl.org /reports/southslavic/2005/09/26-080905.asp   (1123 words)

  
 Last Free People in Europe
The Serbian people are now asking how many of their children must die in this bizarre foreign policy of US imposed genocide by sanctions.
There are 11 million people in Serbia, yet Milosevic couldn't muster an army of 500,000 men-a mere 4% of the population.
The Serbian American Voters Alliance, with the acronym SAVA, was the first Serbian lobby in Washington, it was started in 1989 by David Vuich.
www.members.tripod.com /kosovo99/lastfree.htm   (3031 words)

  
 Jan Lamprecht - Interest in the Hollow Earth
During the BBC documentary "Pole-to-Pole" a number of people including the BBC crew were on a small plane going across Antarctica.
People are rushing down the wrong path, watching Area 51, chasing reptilians, looking at crop circles and trying to catch cattle mutes.
No big coverup is needed because people are already looking in the wrong place for the wrong thing.
www.v-j-enterprises.com /janhol.html   (8807 words)

  
 City of Belgrade - Famous Buildings 1
At the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the First Serbian Insurrection (1954), the Museum of the First Serbian Insurrection was opened in the Konak, and it was thematically dedicated to the whole period of Serbian liberation wars against the Turks (from 1804 until the second hatišerif (charter) of 1839).
It was built in 1829-1831 under the supervision of Hadži-Nikola Živković, the pioneer of Serbian architecture in the first half of XIX century.
This palace has been gifted to the Serbian people (the writing on the main facade - "Miša Anastasijević to his fatherland") for educational and cultural purposes.
www.beograd.org.yu /cms/view.php?id=201311   (922 words)

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