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OLD SERBIA

OLD SERBIA     “Old Serbia”, as a notion and term, appears frequently not only in science and politics but also in everyday life. Its’ origins come from life’s practice, and the necessity for Serbs to identify with an ethnic entity and cultural-historical existence within a defined geographical area. Not infrequently, the borders were defined by unstable political state of

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KOSOVO PROPHECY, SAINT BISHOP NIKOLAJ VELIMIROVIC

KOSOVO PROPHECY   Jehovah upholding all the falling, and raising up all who are bowed down. (Psalm 145,14)   Without death there is no resurrection, Under a shroud of glory I see you, And our nation’s honor resurrected – “Away from the Serbs, you vile curse!” The Serbs have now fulfilled their vow. (The Mountain Wreath) …For whom are our

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SERAPHIM ROSE LETTERS TO CHRISTIANS

A Man Not of This World Hieromonk Seraphim Rose, co-founder and co-editor of The Orthodox Word and co-founder of the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood and Monastery at Platina, California, reposed in the Lord on September 2, 1982 n.s. Born in 1934 in California, he was raised in a typical American Protestant family. He graduated from Pomona College in the

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TOKENS OF RASHKIA’S KINGDOM

TOKENS OF RASHKIA’S KINGDOM            Svetlana Stevic Vukosavljevic, treasurer of Serbian folk treasury In the tradition of people from Homolje, language represents the treasury of entire knowledge and testament our ancestors have entrusted us with. It contains the keys and locks of life. This paper aims to illustrate this through the legend of Rashkia’s kingdom.             “Ancient Serbs had

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Words on the marble pillar in Kosovo

    Old Serbian writing on a marble pillar stuck at the place in Kosovo where the most pitched battle took place, thus making a lasting mark to descendants and testimony of bravery of the Serbian Prince Lazar and his warriors.             Words on the marble pillar in Kosovo   Oh man you, who walks on this Serbian land no

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HOLOCAUST IN SERBIA

HOLOCAUST IN SERBIA SHOAH     Jews in Serbia in the period between the First and Second World War The Jewish community in the interwar period[1] represented one of the minor religious communities whose civil inheritance of 19th century belonged to different political, cultural and economic heritage. The Jewish population on the territory of today’s Republic of Serbia amounted to

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JASENOVAC IN THE TRADITION OF THE 3rd POSTWAR GENERATION

Ph D Momčilo Mitrović Institute for Recent History of Serbia JASENOVAC IN THE TRADITION OF THE 3rd POSTWAR GENERATION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE VELIKO NABRDJE)               The village of Veliko Nabrdje was located on the slopes of Dilj and Krndija in Slavonija, some fifteen kilometers by air from Djakovo, at the height above see level from

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“Telegram of death”

Austro-Hungarian telegram in which it was written a declaration of war to Serbia on this day on Tuesday, 28 July 1914 Telegram of declaration of war Austria-Hungary to Serbia 1914 is kept in the Archives of Serbia. Declaration of war Serbia is arrived via regular mail, written in French, then the official language, and then handed over to Nikola Pasic

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Great Serbs: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 (June 28 Old Style) in Smiljan, Lika – then part of the Austrian Military Frontier, currently in the Republic of Croatia. His father Milutin was a Serbian Orthodox priest. His mother Georgina had a remarkable memory for epic poetry. Nikola’s older brother, Dane, died in a horse-riding accident in 1861. He had three sisters: Milka,

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Nebojsa Malic: Kingdom of Heaven

“Why do Serbs celebrate defeat?” comes the question, every June 28. The short and simple answer is, they don’t. But a longer and more complicated answer is needed to explain it properly. June 28 (or 15th, in the Julian calendar), Vidovdan, is the date on which the Orthodox Christian host of Prince Lazar confronted and battled the Ottoman Turks at

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