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  Prince Lazar - Definition, explanation
Lazar was born in Prilepac in 1329, the son of a minor vlastelin (noble).
Lazar left Prizren in the early 1370s, and devoted himself to the consolidation of his power in the northern Serbian regions around his court in Krusevac.
The Serbian force was composed chiefly of Lazar's army, flanked by the troops of Vuk Brankovic and Bosnian ban Tvrtko (commanded by fierce duke Vlatko Vukovic).
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pr/prince_lazar.php   (951 words)

  
 The City of Prince Lazar
The medieval city of Krusevac, capital of prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic (around 1326 -1389), an important political, commercial and economic center of the Moravic Serbia, was built in the middle of the eighth decade of the 14th century.
It was built in the period 1377/8 - 1380 in honour of the first born son of prince Lazar, Stefan, the heir to the throne.
The Monument to Prince Lazar, the founder of the city, was uncovered in 1971, within the celebration ”Six Centuries of Krusevac”.
www.turizam-krusevac.org.yu /html/the_city_of_prince_lazar.php   (810 words)

  
  Science Fair Projects - Prince Lazar
Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović (Cyrillic Кнез Лазар Хребељановић;) (1329 - June 15 1389), also known as "Tsar Lazar", was a Serbian noble who fought and perished at the Battle of Kosovo, to which his name and life are inextricably tied.
Lazar was born in Prilepac in 1329, the son of a minor vlastelin (noble).
The Serbian force was composed chiefly of Lazar's army, flanked by the troops of Vuk Brankovic and Bosnian ban Tvrtko (commanded by fierce duke Vlatko Vukovic).
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Prince_Lazar   (1088 words)

  
 Prince Lazar
Vitus' Day 1389 on the Kosovo Field) was a prince from 1372 up to 1389 and a commander of Serbian army during the Battle of Kosovo.
Moving into Serbia, he marched as far as Kosovo, where he was confronted by prince Lazar's army.
Lazar himself was captured on battlefield and later executed.
www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Prince_Lazar   (610 words)

  
 Prologue to Kosovo: The Era of Prince Lazar
Lazar lost the vital mining center of Rudnik to Nikola sometime at the end of 1371 or the beginning of 1372, and was involved in frequent border skirmishes with him.
Lazar was setting the stage for the restoration of central authority in Serbia, and his court at Krusevac was becoming a lively intellectual and artistic center in the Balkans.
Lazar was the first secular figure to become a saint in Serbia after 200 years of the Nemanjici.32 This perhaps helps us to understand the concern of his eulogists to emphasize the family ties between Lazar and the "saintly-born" dynasty of the Nemanjici.
www.srpska-mreza.com /bookstore/kosovo/kosovo10.htm   (4399 words)

  
 Holy Prince-Martyr Lazar
The life of St. Lazar is unlike that of most other Orthodox saints, not in the piety of his life, but in the character of his martyrdom.
The holy prince Lazar (affectionately known as Tsar to his people) and those who perished with him are numbered among the martyrs of the S e r hi a n Orthodox Church.
And though Prince Lazar was betrayed by the of his closest nobles.
www.roca.org /OA/15/15f.htm   (331 words)

  
 Boogie 'til You Bounce : Yugo Digest [Victory With Bitter Aftermath]
Lazar, wounded, was forced to throw down his sword and surrender, while what remained of his decimated army rapidly withdrew and dispersed across the plain.
Prince Lazar, on learning of Milos's heroics, gave the man his blessing before being led to the dying sultan, whose final act in this short war was to condemn Lazar and the other captured Serbian nobles to death.
Lazar's son Stephen, one of the few nobles to have escaped the Turks, sought and was granted terms of surrender from Bayezid.
prestonm.com /military/bosnia/yugodgst/kosovo.html   (3735 words)

  
 The Battle of Kosovo
Prince Lazar built his court city of Krusevac in the northern regions of Serbia away from the heartland of Nemanjic Serbia.
The eulogists interpreted Lazar's death as a victory in the religious sense of the word and used the New Testament symbol of the crown as the reward for the martyr's sacrifice.
Lazar and the Serbian people gave their lives freely for the faith and for the land; and because of this martyrdom at the hands of the heathen enemy the Serbs knew that God would protect His people and return them one day from their captivity.
www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/emmert.htm   (9554 words)

  
 Geography: world geography
Prince Lazar built his court city of Krusevac in the northern regions of Serbia away from the heartland of Nemanjic Serbia.
The eulogists interpreted Lazar's death as a victory in the religious sense of the word and used the New Testament symbol of the crown as the reward for the martyr's sacrifice.[40] Lazar as martyr for the faith and for Serbia would redeem his people with his sacrifice.
Lazar and the Serbian people gave their lives freely for the faith and for the land; and because of this martyrdom at the hands of the heathen enemy the Serbs knew that God would protect His people and return them one day from their captivity.
en.allexperts.com /q/Geography-1729/world-geography-3.htm   (7739 words)

  
 Archive of Oncology
For centuries, the personality of Prince Lazar (Hrebljanovic), a spouse of Princess Milica, the last progeny of the Nemanjiæ dynasty, was remembered among the Serbs as closely related to tragic destiny of the battle of Kosovo.
Prince Lazar was an enlightened and a humane ruler, a patron of arts.
The celebration of Prince Lazar and his sacrifice for the faith and his people is for every Christian an aspect of spiritual enlightenment.
www.onk.ns.ac.yu /archive/Vol9/v9n2cp.htm   (465 words)

  
 Kosovo
Prince Lazar and the cream of the Serbian nobility all died heroically.
Over the centuries, historians have praised the sacrificial courage of Prince Lazar and his army on that day in 1389 - and, as we enter a new century, that same courage is embodied by spirit of all the Serbian people.
Before the Battle of Kosovo Prince Lazar told his gallant knights that it was better to die heroically than to live under the enemy yoke.
srpska-mreza.com /mlad   (422 words)

  
 The Kosovo Legacy
Lazar's death is depicted as a triumph of good over evil: a martyrdom for the faith and the symbol of a new beginning.
Lazar' s death on Kosovo was the atonement for all of Serbia' s sins - sins that had called the wrath of God upon them in the first place and caused them to lose their state.
Prince Njegos certainly reflected the impatience and the desires of many in his constant demands for vigilance and continued sacrifice against the Ottomans.
www.srpska-mreza.com /bookstore/kosovo/kosovo11.htm   (7972 words)

  
 Insight: Legacy of Medieval Serbia
In 1217, Grand Prince Stefan received a crown and the title of king from Honorius III, the Pope in Rome, and so came to be known as King Stefan the First-Crowned.
Prophet Elijah then appeared as a gray falcon to Lazar, bearing a letter from the Mother of God that told him the choice was between holding an earthly kingdom and entering the kingdom of heaven; he chose the latter, and died with all his warriors.
Prince Lazar was canonized and his feast day set on the anniversary of the battle, June 15 according to the Julian calendar, celebrated now in Serbia on June 28 (in the Gregorian calendar).
www.archaeology.org /9909/etc/insight.html   (2546 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Pirate Prince: Books: Gaelen Foley   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The love between Lazar and Allegra is very beautifully developed, but Lazar's treatment of the heroine is not always first rate (to put it mildly) and I am not sure that he did enough of a grovel at the end to warrant forgiveness.
Set in the island of Ascension, pirate prince Lazar di Fiore plans the perfect revenge against the man who had taken everything from him, and the best way to achieve this is by kidnapping the man's daughter and killing her.
The crown prince Lazar, prince of Ascension had survived the slaughter of his family by jumping of a cliff to the sea...
www.amazon.com /Pirate-Prince-Gaelen-Foley/dp/0449002470   (1978 words)

  
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Prince Lazar rode back from the hunt to his castle with his two sons-in-law while his two daughters watched their arrival from a high watchtower.
Prince Lazar rebuked him for these words and told him that Milos is his feathered shield, all his strength and vigor.
Lazar then gave the sign of the cross with his sword and with a martyr's voice he called the brave serbian knights to shed their blood and to redeem their lives with their deaths.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Emmert1.html   (9248 words)

  
 Jelena's Home Page <<< The Krusevac city >>>
The city of Krusevac was founded after the year 1371,as the capital of Prince Lazar's Serbia and military,cultural and economic center of that time.After the erection of the city the rulers of Krusevac and other landed proprietors in the vicinity:Lazarica,Ravanica,Ljubostinja,Koznik and some others.
One of the Prince's residences-the town of Koznik emerging above Zupa which is rich in vine area and above the river Rasina it was held by great chieftain of Prince Lazar-Rados Posupovic,in folk poems Rajko od Rasine.
Lazarica erected by Prince Lazar in an honor of birth of his son Stefan in 1377.Lazarica represents a prototype of billing of the Moravian School in the medieval serbian architecture
www.ptt.yu /korisnici/j/e/jelena/krusevac.htm   (187 words)

  
 Writers richly details the Balkans' torturous history
The legends have it that Serbian Prince Lazar was given a choice between an eternal empire in heaven or a temporal empire on earth.
The greatly outnumbered Serbs lost to the Ottoman invaders (partly as a result of treachery), and Prince Lazar lost his life, but in the process "heavenly Serbia" was born.
Prince Lazar's son, Stefan Lazarevic, succeeded him and later became a vassal of the Turks.
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/04/25/kosovo.html   (1900 words)

  
 Alibris: Prince
When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day.
But now Prince Arutha has renounced his claim to the throne, and his twin sons, Borric and Erland, are ill prepared for the succession.
A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Prince   (1137 words)

  
 Diocese of Western America | Kosovo in the history of the Serbian Church
Lazar was the main leader of an effort to organize an alliance of Balkan peoples to resist them in a decisive battle.
Lazar died in battle and is popularly regarded as a martyr.
Lazar's choice is not between good and evil, but between what may be good (avoiding suffering) and what is much more than any good thing (accepting God's will and his heavenly kingdom), a more difficult choice.
www.westsrbdio.org /kosovo_history   (9433 words)

  
 THE “REPELLING OF THE GREAT TURK” IN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
The Moldavian prince was thus at the same time fighting against a “backward, rapacious and destructive power that was threatening the civilisation as well as the progress of the Romanian lands”.
In particular in the description of the conflict, the prince’s heroic prowess is emphasised, how he made his way himself to the thick of the battle which had ultimately contributed to the Turks’ withdrawal.
Prince Lazar, the vice-regent of the Serbian Empire, did not survive his great battle in 1389, nevertheless, or to put it better, precisely therefore his figure was and is revered and transfigured to an extent that does not apply either for Stephen the Great or for Skanderbeg.
www.geocities.com /marin_serban/maner2004.html   (3627 words)

  
 KOSOVO: HISTORICAL SURVEY by Srdja Trifkovic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lazar’s frantic effort to obtain help from allies such as the king of Hungary failed because it was difficult, if not impossible, to organize it on such short notice.
Prince Lazar could have taken some moral comfort from the fact that he and his people were defenders of Christian civilization and that the forthcoming battle would probably be the last chance for Balkan Christians to repulse the Muslims.
Lazar could also have believed that some of his vojvodas were seriously thinking of passing over to the camp of the sultan, among them Milos Obilic, who was seen conferring with two other commanders and inquiring about Turkish battle deployment.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic/NewsST060900.htm   (16712 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 99041729
Whirling maidens in national costumes danced as he was hailed as the reincarnation of Prince Lazar, who died at that very spot six hundred years earlier while resisting a superior Ottoman army.
Lazar opts for the kingdom of heaven, which is to say, truth and justice.
The NATO ultimatum, with its uncanny echoes of the mythical message brought to Lazar by the gray falcon, presented Milosevic with an agonizing choice: he could accept a plan giving Kosovo Albanians home rule with a NATO force on the ground to supervise it (and virtually ensuring their secession after three years).
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon052/99041729.html   (3125 words)

  
 Lazar ancestry
01 - Lazar Goldberg Bryne Popkin - name hannah chana goldberg born nov 1826 at russia married at died 28 dec 1909 at new york new york spouses abraham nathan
03 - Garrett Lazar Swearingen Born August 22 2000 In Sydney Australia - tsar lazar of noble ancestry which kingdom will you choose will you choose the heavenly kingdom or do you choose a worldly kingdom if you choose the earthly kingdom
05 - Kosovo 1389 - tsar lazar of noble ancestry which kingdom will you choose will you choose the earthly kingdom or will you choose the heavenly kingdom if you choose the earthly kingdom
www.museumstuff.com /family-history/names/Lazar.php   (254 words)

  
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Serb nationalists used the martyrdom of the Serb prince Lazar at the battle in Kosovo in 1389 as a central component of the ideology of "ethnic cleansing." In the passion play commemorating the battle of 1389, Lazar is portrayed as a Christ figure with disciples (sometimes explicitly twelve), one of whom is a traitor.
Lazar is now a Christ figure, with knight disciples, who is slain, and with him dies the Serb nation, to rise again only with the resurrection of Lazar.
Lazar's last supper is represented in Adam Stefanovic's lithograph "The Feast of the Prince (Lazar)" with Lazar in the center of the banquet table, surrounded by knights in the pose of a thousand depictions of Christ's disciples, with light* suffusing the countenance of the prince, and traitor Vuk brooding silently in the background.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/sells1.html   (6943 words)

  
 Kosovo 05
The legend of Prince Lazar and Kosovo became a potent political force in Serbia as the old Yugoslavia broke apart in the years following Tito's death in 1980 and the collapse of communism.
In 1988, a coffin purporting to contain Lazar's mummified remains was taken on a triumphal tour around Serbia and displayed in front of huge crowds of wailing, fl-clad mourners.
On the 600th anniversary of Lazar's defeat, in June 1989, Milosevic was hailed as the reincarnation of the fallen prince at a rally on Kosovo Field attended by more than 1 million Serbs but boycotted by Albanians furious with Milosevic for abolishing their autonomy.
www.greece.org /orgs/hellas/news/kosovo/battle-of-kosovo.html   (1294 words)

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