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Drenča Monastery
The Drenča or Dušmanica Monastery is located near the place of the same name, not far from Aleksandrovac and belongs to the Eparchy of the Kruševac of Serbian Orthodox Church. History The monastery was built between 1379 and 1382 by the former nobleman of prince Lazar (1371–1389), monk Dorothej and his son and later patriarch Danilo (III). Dorotej donated to monastery large estates around Kruševac and in Braničevo, which included a court with a church in Naupara (Naupara monastery). The monastery church with a triconconal base, is dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, belongs to the Morava architectural school and is one of the oldest monuments of its type. It was demolished by the Ottomans in 1454. Work on research and conservation of the ruins of Drenča Monastery was carried out on several occasions (1952, 1967, 1971, 1981 and 2002), and the complete restoration of the monastery church was carried out by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Mon ...
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Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina are baptised members of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is organized into metropolitanates and eparchies, located primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia. Other congregations are located in the Serb diaspora. The Serbian Patriarch serves as first among equals in his church. The current patriarch is Porfirije, enthroned on 19 February 2021. The Church achieved autocephalous status in 1219, under the leadership of Saint Sava, becoming the independent Archbishopric of Žiča. Its status was elevated to that of a patriarchate in 1346, and was subsequently known as the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. This patriarchate was abolished by ...
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Naupara
Naupara monastery is a Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery situated 30 km south of the town of Kruševac and about 190 km from Belgrade. The original building was completed in 1391 but was severely destroyed by Turks in 1454. It was not restored until 1835 when brothers Stojan Simić and Aleksa Simić took on the project. They offered the church a bell, sacred books, and other religious items upon its completion. Naupara is built in the Serbian architectural style of the Morava school and was constructed in the same style as the Lazarica Church. The paintings and iconostasis within the monastery date to the 19th century since the original frescos were ruined during the restoration. Today, Naupara is an active nunnery, with a small number of nuns who tend to the land. See also *Cultural Monuments of Rasina District This list includes Cultural heritage of Serbia#Immovable Cultural Heritage, Immovable Cultural Heritage sites in the Rasina District of Serbia. Cultural monum ...
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Medieval Sites In Serbia
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early Middle Ages, Early, High Middle Ages, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralised authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the ...
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Serbian Orthodox Monasteries In Serbia
This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Christian Monastery, monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United States, United States of America, Canada, and Australia. Stauropegions There are two stauropegion monasteries in the Serbian Orthodox Church, that are directly subordinated to the Serbian patriarch: Archeparchy of Belgrade and Karlovci Source Eparchy of Srem Source Eparchy of Banat Source Eparchy of Bačka Eparchy of Šabac Source Eparchy of Valjevo Source Eparchy of Šumadija Source Eparchy of Vranje Source Eparchy of Timok Source Eparchy of Kruševac Source Eparchy of Žiča Source Eparchy of Niš Source: https://eparhijaniska.rs/manastiri Eparchy of Braničevo Eparchy of Mileševa Source In Serbia In Montenegro Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, Eparchy of Ras and Prizren Source ...
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Cultural Monuments Of Rasina District
This list includes Cultural heritage of Serbia#Immovable Cultural Heritage, Immovable Cultural Heritage sites in the Rasina District of Serbia. Cultural monuments Archaeological Sites Historic Landmarks Spatial Cultural-Historical Units See also * Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance (Serbia) * Immovable Cultural Heritage of Great Importance (Serbia) References

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Monastic Community Of Mount Athos
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region, a regional unit and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part of the Athos peninsula including Mount Athos. The bordering proximal part of the peninsula belongs to the regular Aristotelis municipality in Central Macedonia. In modern Greek, the community is commonly referred to as (), translating to 'Holy Mountain', while () is used to denote the physical mountain and () in respect to the peninsula. The community includes 20 monasteries and the settlements on which they depend. The monasteries house around 2,000 Eastern Orthodox monks from Greece and many other countries, including Eastern Orthodox countries such as Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Montenegro ...
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Kraljevo
Kraljevo ( sr-Cyrl, Краљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Raška District in central Serbia. It is situated on the confluence of West Morava and Ibar River, Ibar, in the geographical region of Šumadija, between the mountains of Kotlenik in the north, and Stolovi in the south. In 2022 the city urban area has a population of 57,432 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 110,196 inhabitants. With an area of 1530 km2, it is the List of cities in Serbia, largest municipality (after Belgrade) in Serbia by area. Name Formerly known as Rudo Polje (Рудо Поље), Karanovac (Карановац) and Rankovićevo (Ранковићево), Kraljevo received its present name, meaning "the King's Town", from King Milan I of Serbia in honor of his own coronation and six Serbian kings that had been crowned in that area. The modern coat of arms of the city features seven crowns symbolizing the seven kings. History and si ...
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Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks () were a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed. Their descendants are the present-day Turkish people, who comprise the majority of the population in the Turkey, Republic of Turkey, which was established shortly after the end of World War I. Reliable information about the early history of the Ottoman Turks remains scarce, but they take their Turkish name from Osman I, who founded the Ottoman dynasty, House of Osman alongside the Ottoman Empire; the name "Osman (name), Osman" was altered to "Ottoman" when it was transliterated into some Languages of Europe, European languages over time. The Ottoman principality, expanding from Söğüt, gradually began incorporating other Turkish-speaking Muslims and non-Turkish Christians into their realm. B ...
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Morava Architectural School
Morava architectural school (, sr-Cyrl, Моравска школа архитeктуре), also known as the Morava style (, sr-Cyrl, Моравски стил), or simply as the Morava school (, sr-Cyrl, Моравска школа, link=no), is an ecclesiastical architectural style that flourished in the Serbian Late Middle Ages (ca. 1370–1459), during the reign of the Lazarević and Branković dynasties. The churches and monasteries were built by the rulers Lazar Hrebeljanović (1370–1389), Stefan Lazarević (1402–1427) and Đurađ Branković (1427–1456) and their nobility. The first endowment was the royal tomb of Ravanica. The main achievement of the Morava School is the splendor of the sculptural elements. The decorative stone plastic of the Moravska School represents one of the most original artistic achievements of medieval Serbian art. Decorative elements characteristic of this artistic school typically consist of geometric arabesque with stylized floral orn ...
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Braničevo District
The Braničevo District (, ) is one of administrative districts of Serbia. According to the 2022 census, it has a population of 156,367 inhabitants.https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/Pdf/G20234001.pdf Braničevo District is named after the village of Braničevo. The administrative center of the district is Požarevac. History The present-day administrative districts (including Braničevo District) were established in 1992 by the decree of the Government of Serbia. Municipalities Braničevo District encompasses the territories of one city and 7 municipalities: * Požarevac (city) * Kučevo (municipality) * Golubac (municipality) * Malo Crniće (municipality) * Petrovac (municipality) * Veliko Gradište (municipality) * Žabari (municipality) * Žagubica (municipality) Demographics Towns There is just one town with over 10,000 inhabitants: Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of th ...
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Dorotej Of Hilandar
Dorotej or Dorotheus ( sr-cyr, Доротеј) was a Serbian Orthodox abbot of Hilandar and the '' protos'' of Mount Athos from 1356 until 1366. He is noted for writing a charter for the monastery of Drenča in 1382. Life Drenča The village of Drenča, 5 km north of town of Aleksandrovac, was home to the ruined church of ''Dušmanica'', as it is called by village's elders. The monk Dorotej, the third Prior of Hilandar Monastery with his son Danilo (who later became Patriarch Danilo III of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, from 1390 to 1397) built the monastery of Drenča in 1382 and dedicated it to the ''Presentation of the Holy Virgin''. The two founders gifted the shrine with numerous estates and established its economic status which was regularly supplied with continuous income. At the south-west angle of the Monastery Church naos the building founders's graves are covered with large stone blocks. With its decoration similar to the Veluće and Rudenica monasteries, the ...
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Kruševac
Kruševac ( sr-Cyrl, Крушевац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Rasina District in central Serbia. It is located in the valley of West Morava, on Rasina (river), Rasina river. According to the 2022 census, the city administrative area has a population of 113,582 while the urban area has 53,746 inhabitants. The city was founded in 1371, by Prince Lazar of Serbia (1371–1389), who used it as his seat. Etymology The etymology is derived from the Serbian word for "river stone", ''krušac'' which was largely used for a building at that time. History Kruševac was founded in 1371, as a fortified town in the possession of Lazar of Serbia, Lord Lazar Hrebeljanović. The Lazarica (church), Lazarica Church (or ''Church of St, Stephen'') was built by Lazar between 1375 and 1378, in the Morava school, Morava architectural style. It is mentioned in one of Lazar's edicts in 1387, as his seat, when he affirmed the rights of Republic of Venice, ...
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