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	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Serbian Epic Poetry: Notes
		The Serbian army at Marica was surprised by the Ottomans and was slaughtered.
		After Lazar was killed at Kosovo, the two pre-eminent Serbian political leaders were Lazar's widow Milica (who acted as regent for Stefan Lazarević, her son by Lazar), and Vuk Branković (who had married one of Lazar's daughters).
		As the seat of the Patriarch of the Serbian church, Peć was considered a holy city -- along with Jerusalem and Constantinople, seat of the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church.
	www.rastko.org.yu /kosovo/umetnost/serbepic/notes.htm (0 words)

	Serbian epic poetry
		Songs of Serbian epic poetry rarely, if ever, rhyme, but they are easy to remember as each line has exactly ten syllables and caesura after fourth syllable.
		Serbian epic poetry is being made even today in this same form.
		There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature; these are also circulating around with no known author.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/se/serbian_epic_poetry.html (603 words)

	Poetry: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Poetry, the art of creating poems, also known as verse, may be defined in opposition to prose, which is language which is meant to convey meaning, with lesser emphasis on mood, word choice, and exact form of expression.
		Poetry is as old as human speech and is a compressed form of speech (and song) in an imaginative manner that at its best evokes and releases human emotions and intuition.
		Also, the vocabulary of poetry tends to be larger and more obscure than that of prose, because poets are apt to take greater liberties with the language and to retain old words and invent new words in order to express themselves within the structure of their poetry.
	www.encyclopedian.com /po/Poetry.html (574 words)

	Poetry - Wikinfo
		Poetry's use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leave a poem open to multiple interpretations.
		Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes.
		The vocabulary of poetry tends to be larger and more obscure than that of prose, because poets are apt to take greater liberties with the language and to retain old words and invent new words in order to express themselves within the structure of their poetry.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Poetry (2524 words)

	Find A Grave - Belgrade
		A disgruntled Serbian population living along the Croat-Bosnian border comprising a third of Croatian territory and known as the Krajina, were miffed by the election of Nationalist President Franjo Tudjman of...
		Born in Kukar, Croatia, he was the leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina from 1991 to 1995, a break-away region with largely Serbian population that separated from Croatia after its declaration of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
		Fought in both Serbian Ottoman Wars from 1876 to 1878 as a cadet of the Artillery School, as well as in wars that Serbia waged at the beginning of the XX century.
	www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=city&FScityid=404365 (1571 words)

	Serbian epic poetry - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Songs of Serbian epic poetry rarely, if ever, rhyme, but they are easy to remember as each line has exactly ten syllables and caesura after fourth syllable.
		Serbian epic poetry is being made even today in this same form.
		There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature; these are also circulating around with no known author.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Serbian_epic_poetry (545 words)

	Korean poetry Summary
		Throughout much of Korea's history, writers of poetry tended to be of the aristocratic class, government officials for whom the ability to write poetry was an indication of their upbringing and their ability to serve their nation well.
		Korean traditional poetry on the whole can be characterized as being centered on the self, through which the reader can relate to his or her own experiences and proceed to discover their universality.
		Poetry is quite popular in twenty-first century Korea, both in terms of number of works published and lay writing.
	www.bookrags.com /Korean_poetry (2342 words)

	Psychology of... Irish poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Towards the last quarter of the century, modern Irish poetry has tended to a wide range of diversity, from the poets of the Northern school to writers influenced by the modernist tradition and those facing the new questions posed by an increasingly urban and cosmopolitan society.
		Their poetry also changed, with a move away from the syllabic verse of the schools to accentual metres, reflecting the oral poetry of the bardic period.
		John Hewitt (1907â“1987), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes.
	www.psychologyof.com /wiki/Irish_poetry (4210 words)

	GotPoetry.com > > Poetry
		Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις," poesis—a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning.
		Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to, prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.
		The rejection of traditional forms and structures for poetry that began in the first half of the twentieth century, coincided with a questioning of the purpose and meaning of traditional definitions of poetry and of distinctions between poetry and prose.
	www.gotpoetry.com /MediaWiki/Poetry (7285 words)

	Boban Knezevic, SF&F writer
		The curse is fought by the hero of this novel, a hero that has the characteristics of the epic heroes of Serbian literature, in the areas that stem from collective oral tradition, folk tales.
		The epic line of Serbian folk literature is coupled with a significant part of the fairytale world of the same tradition.
		The warrior-sorcerer is, in fact, a curse thrown upon the Serbian people because of their sins, and Knezevic’s hero, disclosing taboos and reaching to the very bottom of national oral heritage, can fulfill his destiny only by neutralizing its stigma – the warrior-sorcerer.
	www.paramecijum.com /boban/reviews.html (1806 words)

	Dr. Robert Elsie - Who will slay the wolf
		For all of its inhabitants, it is the powder-keg of the Balkans, a land of passions.
		Among the jewels of Kosovo architecture are the Serbian Orthodox patriarchate in Peja (Pec) (1230), the resplendent church of Bogorodica Ljevishka in Prizren (1307), the monastery of Grachanica (1321) near Prishtina (Pristina), and the monastery church of Dechan (1327) near Peja.
		The Serbian military invasion of Kosovo in the summer of 1990 brought the province to the verge of civil war.
	www.elsie.de /pub/b19.html (2473 words)

	Serbian language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Štokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and by Serbs everywhere.
		There are seven cases in Serbian: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental and locative, although locative and dative nearly always have the same form.
		Two Serbian words that are used in many of the world's languages are vampire and slivovitz (though the etymology and origin of the word vampire is disputed [1]).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Serbian_language (1087 words)

	Serbian epic poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Songs of Serbian epic poetry rarely, if ever, rhyme, but they are easy to remember as each line has exactly ten syllables and caesura after fourth syllable.
		Serbian epic poetry is being made even today in this same form.
		There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature; these are also circulating around with no known author.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbian_epic_poetry (591 words)

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		Serbian ancestors, Protoslavs and Old Serbs, were described in the 5th century BC by Herodotus, under the names of Neuri and Budini, living north of the Danube in the region between Dniepar and north-eastern Carpathian Mountains.
		Serbian language is a very developed language (more than 800,000 words) with rich and detailed grammar (nine kinds of words, seven cases, three genders of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and precise expressions for active and passive states or the times of action).
		Serbian settlements are very varied, because of the natural and geographic conditions, as well as the social, economic, and historical differences in the development of particular areas.
	www.serbianlinks.freehosting.net /serbs.htm (7573 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> gusle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The gusle or gusla (Bulgarian: Ð“ÑÑÐ»Ð°, Croatian: Gusle, Serbian: Ð“ÑÑÐ»Ðµ, Gusle) is a single-stringed instrument used in the Balkans and on the Dinarides area.
		The Serbian gusle (pluralia tantum) has one or two strings and is usually made of maple wood.
		The gusle has played an important role in the history of Serbian epic poetry because the guslar national singers passed on national poems in this way for centuries, until the poems were recorded in writing.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/gusle (562 words)

	Hebrew poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language.
		Biblical poetry: the poetry found in the poetic books of the Hebrew Bible.
		Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry: epic poetry written by later writers in Hebrew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_poetry (124 words)

	Skoric's Home Page :: Welcome/Dobro Dosli
		Serbian soldiers and civilians struggled through the bitter cold and rugged mountainous terrain to reach the safety of the sea, where they would be ferried to the Island of Corfu.
		As the Serbian Army settled in Kosovo, in 1915, Mishich was eager to perform counteroffensive actions.
		Milo Obilic was later executed together with all other Serbian prisoners by Murad's son, Beyazid I. The another source (Turkish) says that sultan Murad I was killed after a battle, when the Serbian soldier who pretended to be dead killed sultan when he got close to him.
	www.freewebs.com /skoric1/serbianheroes.htm (4455 words)

	Irish poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Towards the last quarter of the century, modern Irish poetry has tended to a wide range of diversity, from the poets of the Northern school to writers influenced by the modernist tradition and those facing the new questions posed by an increasingly urban and cosmopolitan society.
		Their poetry also changed, with a move away from the syllabic verse of the schools to accentual metres, reflecting the oral poetry of the bardic period.
		John Hewitt (1907–1987), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Irish_poet.htm (4680 words)

	Duma
		dumas differ from other lyrico-epic and historical poetry by their form and by the way in which they were performed.
		They did not have a set strophic structure, but consisted of uneven periods that were governed by the unfolding of the story.
		songs, modified by the influence of the syllabic poetry produced in the schools of the 16th–17th century.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/D/U/Duma.htm (676 words)

	English Serbian language
		Standard Serbian is based on Štokavian dialect, and it accepts both ekavian (spoken mostly in Serbia) and ijekavian (spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia) pronunciation.
		There are seven cases in Serbian: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental and locative, since locative and dative have the same form, but have been traditionally separated, morpohologically the number of cases is six.
		Nevertheless, its system of declension and conjugation have allowed Serbian to be a free word order language, and as such it is often cited by Chomsky and other generative syntacticians.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=Serbian+language (1456 words)

	Contemporary Epic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Plains of Abraham: Canadian Epic, Epopee Canadienne Poem in English on the Sieges of Quebec which "aims to revive performative epic"
		Mabanglo News release on the prize-winning Filipino epic poet of Lovesong of the Katipunan.
		Serbian Epic Several epics and fragments from the Kosovo song cycle (a 1920s translation) on line at this relevant site
	www.auburn.edu /~downejm/contemporary.html (134 words)

	Selected Literatures and Authors Pages - Serbian, Montenegrin, and Yugoslav Literatures
		The Role of Dositej Obradovic in the Construction of Serbian Identities During the 19th Century.
		Letters of Serbian Consuls from Kosovo and Metohija XIX and XX century.
		Desire and Love-Death in Serbian Modernist Drama: Milutin Bojic's The Autumn of the King (Kraljeva jesen).
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/lit_authors_serbian.html (752 words)

	History
		All topics connected with Kosovo are symbols of a high medieval civilizational level of the Serbian society and culture, its aristocratic wealth and glamour on the one hand, and on the other the fall of that civilization due to the violent and cruel blow of the Ottoman invaders.
		The Turkish invasion of south eastern Europe and the Serbian lands as its part, have not only brought about the fall of Christian civilization, but are also responsible for the destruction of all social structures, the elimination of the Serbian elite and the destruction of the most outstanding cultural achievements.
		With the eviction of the Serbian and Montenegrin population, Albanians from Albania and Turkey were settled in the region.
	www.kosovo.net /hist.html (0 words)

	Literature
		Folk (epic) poetry, narration to the accompaniment of the national musical instrument - the gusle (folk fiddle) - was for centuries the basic form of artistic and literary expression.
		Its literary characteristics are evident in the geographic descriptions of the authors native land and of the Serbian nobility, their mutual relations and the Battle of Kosovo.
		Nicifor Ducic published in the Serbian Dalmatian magazine in 1864 Poucenje u Stihovima (A Lesson in Verse), which he attributed to Petar I. The 200 decasyllabic verses were actually the bishops advice of a political, national and moral nature conveyed to the people in the most easily assimilated form.
	www.njegos.org /mnhistory/histlit.htm (900 words)

	Serbian Unity Congress \| Serbian People's History - Gavrilo Princip and Patrick Pearse: Nationalism, Patriotism, and ...
		The leader of the insurgency in the Grahovo Polje region of Hercegovina was the Serbian Orthodox priest Ilija Bilbija, who was from the same village as the Princip family and who later would christen and choose the name for Gavrilo Princip.
		The Zerajic legacy reinforced the idea that the assassination of a "tyrannical foreign ruler is one of the noblest aims in life." This itself was echoing the Kosovo myth, central in Serbian history and in Serbian nationalism and religious history.
		At the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, Prince Lazar met the Ottoman Turkish forces under Sultan Murad I. During the battle a Serbian commander, Milos Obilic, was able to infiltrate the Turkish lines and was able to assassinate Murad by stabbing him with a knife in the stomach.
	www.serbianunity.net /culture/history/gavriloprincip/index.html (6718 words)

	The Balkans: Kosovo
		The Serbian rulers from the 12th century onward built churches, monasteries, and fortresses in the area, such as those at Gracanica, Decani, Pec, and Prizren.
		But the significance of the Serbian pride in resistance to the Ottomans is more than just military and nationalist; it also reflects the "crusading" mentality so common in Europe in the Middle Ages.
		This famous battle symbolizes the survival of the Serbian culture and language during the centuries of Ottoman rule.
	www.cotf.edu /earthinfo/balkans/kosovo/KVtopic3.html (910 words)

	epic poetry
		An epic poem is a long poem narrating the heroic exploits of an individual in a way central to the beliefs and culture of his society.
		Nonetheless, the first epics —Iliad, Odyssey, Mahabharata, Ramayana — were created and transmitted orally, a tradition still seen in Serbian guslars and storytellers throughout Asia.
		With different objectives, epic poetry continues to be written by a few individuals: Ruth Mabanglo, and Frederick Turner.
	www.poetry-portal.com /styles10.html (0 words)

	Serbian Epic Poetry
		Although a few stray poems saw print earlier, it was in 1814 that Serbian epic poetry came to the attention of Europe -- through the collections researched and published by Vuk Karadz^ic'.
		The roots of the current conflicts can be found in the nationalist movements of the middle and late 19th century, the Balkan Wars of 1912 and the diplomacy leading up to it, and the continued fighting in the area through the two world wars.
		The Serbian Unity Congress web site includes two essays which I recommend: one by Nada Milosevic-Djordjevic offers a detailed discussion of Serbian poetry, focusing on the oral tradition; another by Radmila Marinkovic discusses Serbian medieval literature.
	home.earthlink.net /~markdlew/OldSerb/index.htm (0 words)

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