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Circle Of Serbian Sisters
The Circle of Serbian Sisters ( sr-Latn, Kolo Srpskih Sestara) was a women's charitable society established in Belgrade in 1903. Among the founders of the society were Mabel Grouitch, Mabel Grujić, wife of Slavko Grujić, Slavko J. Grujić, Blanš Vesnić, wife of Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Milenko Vesnić, and after the May Coup (Serbia), May coup in Serbia (1903), the society was led by Nadežda Petrović, Delfa Ivanić, Draga Ljočić, Andjelija Stančić, Branislav Nušić and Ivan Ivanić. Regional organisations of the Circle of Serbian Sisters have been established in many areas where Serbs live. After the restoration of the Circle in 1990, the regional organisation Circle operates within the diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. History Its establishment was first proposed by Ivan Ivanić and Branislav Nušić. However, the organizers were Nadežda Petrović, famous expressionist painter, Delfa Ivanić, a teacher, and Savka Subotić, activist (wife of Jovan Subotić). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vračar
Vračar ( sr-Cyrl, Врачар, ) is an affluent urban area and Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality of the city of Belgrade known as the location of many embassies and museums. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a population of 55,406 inhabitants. With an area of only , it is the smallest of all Belgrade's (and Serbian) municipalities, but also the most densely populated. Vračar is one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center area of Belgrade, together with Savski Venac and Stari Grad, Belgrade, Stari Grad. It is an affluent municipality, having one of the most expensive real estate prices within Belgrade, and has the highest proportion of university educated inhabitants compared to all other Serbian municipalities. One of the most famous landmarks in Belgrade, the Church of Saint Sava, Saint Sava Church is located in Vračar. Vračar borders five other Belgrade municipalities: Voždovac to the south, Zvezdara to the east, Palilula t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Antifascist Front Of Yugoslavia
The Women's Antifascist Front (, Антифашистички фронт жена, abbreviated AFŽ/AФЖ; ; ), was a SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslav feminism, feminist and anti-fascist mass organisation. The predecessor to several feminist front groups in the former Yugoslavia, and present-day organisations in the region, the AFŽ was heavily involved in organising and participating in the Yugoslav Partisans, Partisans, the communism, communist and multi-ethnic resistance to Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. It was formed by volunteers on 6 December 1942 in Bosanski Petrovac at the First National Conference of Women. Judita Alargić was a key figure in the first generation of AFŽ organisers. Name In its early days, the organization was called ''Antifascist Organization of Women'' (AOZ). In Croatia, the organization was named the ''Antifascist front of women of Croatia''. In Slovenia there were a number of titles: ''Antifascist women association'', ''Antifascist Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Society Of Belgrade
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throughout human history, traditional gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasija Miletić
Kasija Miletić (ca. 1875–1915) was a prominent member of the Circle of Serbian Sisters and a volunteer nurse in World War I. Biography Kasija Đokić was born around 1875. Miletić was a socially-active young woman and with Delfa Ivanić became one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters. When the Great War broke out she went to the front as a volunteer nurse. While tending patients at the Valjevo Military Hospital, she contracted typhus Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposu .... She died in the Valjevo Military Hospital in 1915. References Bibliography * External links * 1875 births 1915 deaths Serbian women in World War I Serbian casualties of World War I Female nurses in World War I World War I nurses Circle of Serbian Sisters Nurses killed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirka Grujić
Mirka Grujić (Belgrade, 1869–1940) was a Serbian volunteer nurse during World War I, president of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, and was the honorary first lady-in-waiting of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia. Biography Mirka Grujić was one of ten children of Jelena and Jevrem Grujić's House, Jevrem Grujić, the Serbian statesman and diplomat. She was highly educated and intelligent. She spoke five languages, painted, played the harpsichord. During the First Balkan War, Second Balkan War, and World War I, Grujić joined the volunteer medical corps as a nurse. She took part in the retreat across Albania and remained with the army until the liberation of Serbia, when she returned to Belgrade. For her work as a nurse, she was given the Medal for Bravery (Serbia), Medal for Bravery. After the war, she became the president of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, whose member she was prior to World War I. In that position, she took care of the poor, the ill, orphans, and helped educate young girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Đorđević-Malagurski
Mara Đorđević-Malagurski ( sr-cyr, Мара Ђорђевић-Малагурски; 20 December 1894 – 9 July 1971) was a Serbian writer and ethnographer. Alongside Lazarus Stipić, a librarian at the public library in Subotica, she was one of the few prominent figures from the Bunjevci. Biography Mara Malagurski was born in Subotica. Like many female school students in Subotica (Subotica City Museum) she originates from the Bunjevac Malagurski-Ćurčić family. Her grandfather, Ice Malagurski, was the first president of the Bunjevci cultural association "Pučke Kasine", founded in 1878. Her father was named Josip and her mother Hristina (born Stantić). Malagurski was educated at The Štrosmajerovo Institute in Đakovo, and then moved on to higher education at a school for women in Subotica. In addition, she studied English in London. When the Grand National Assembly was held in Novi Sad (1918), she was one of the seven female delegates, and at the same time one of the me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darinka Mirković Borović
Darinka Mirković Borović (18 January 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Montenegrin nurse during World War I and a bearer of the Albanian Commemorative Medal. She worked in the Valjevo Hospital in Serbia, and in Marseille, where wounded and sick Serbian soldiers were evacuated. After the war she was active in humanitarian societies and the Circle of Serbian Sisters. Biography Darinka Mirković Borović was born in Pljevlja on 18 January 1896. Her father owned a cafe. There, she met a young lieutenant of the Serbian army, Stanislav Staš Milovanović, from Belgrade. After marriage in the summer of 1914, they moved to Belgrade, but Milovanović is killed during military service at Mačkov in September 1914. Borović trained as a nurse, in order to help the wounded. She worked in the Valjevo Hospital and on the battlefields. She survived the crossing to Albania and in 1917, she reached Marseille, where wounded and sick Serbian soldiers were evacuated. Borović was later awarded the Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces.Sembach, Klaus-Jürgen, ''L'Art Nouveau'' (2013), pp. 8–30 It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academicism, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decorative art. One major objective of Art Nouveau was to break down the traditional distinction between fine arts (especially painting and sculpture) and applied arts. It was most widely used in interior design, graphic arts, furniture, glass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo Maiden
The Kosovo Maiden or Maiden of the Kosovo field, Blackbird's Field ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Косовка девојка, Kosovka devojka, separator=" / ") is the central figure of a poem with the same name, part of the Serbian epic poetry#Corpus, Kosovo cycle in the Serbian epic poetry. In it, a young beauty searches the battlefield for her Betrothal, betrothed fiancé and helps wounded Serbian warriors with water, wine and bread after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 between Moravian Serbia, Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. She finally finds the wounded and dying warrior Pavle Orlović who tells her that her fiancé Milan Toplica and his blood-brothers Miloš Obilić and Ivan Kosančić are dead. Before the battle they had given her a cloak, golden ring and veil for the wedding as a promise of safe return, but they were slain and Pavle pointed to the direction of the bodies. The poem finishes with: "O wretch! Evil is your fortune!If I, a wretch, were to grasp a green pine,Even the green pine w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Chetnik Organization
The Serbian Revolutionary Organization () or Serbian Chetnik Organization (Српска четничка организација / Srpska četnička organizacija) was a paramilitary revolutionary organization with the aim of liberation of Old Serbia (Kosovo and Macedonia (region), Macedonia) from the Ottoman Empire (in the vilayets of Kosovo Vilayet, Kosovo, Manastir Vilayet, Manastir and Salonika Vilayet, Salonika). Its Central Committee (Централни одбор / Centralni odbor) was established in 1902, while the Serbian Committee (Српски комитет / Srpski komitet) was established in September 1903 in Belgrade, by the combined Central Boards of Belgrade, Vranje, Skopje and Bitola. Its armed wing was activated in 1904. Among the architects were members of the Saint Sava society, Army Staff (Kingdom of Serbia), Army Staff and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kingdom of Serbia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It operated during the Macedonian Struggle, Struggle for Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
