Prohor Račanin ( sr-Cyrl, Прохор Рачанин; c. 1617 – 1678) was a monk-scribe and member of the School of Rača, a scriptorium in

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that was ransacked by the Turks. Most of the monks eventually moved from Serbia to

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in Hungary under the leadership of

Arsenije III Crnojević Arsenije III Crnojević ( sr-Cyrl, Арсеније III Црнојевић; 1633 – 27 October 1706) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1674 to his death in 1706. In 1689, during the Habsburg-Ottoman War (1683–1699), he s ...

. Monk Prohor, however, left Rača monastery in Bajna Bašta long before the Great Serbian Migration and settled in

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where he taught at a monastery there until he died in 1678. He left several unpublished manuscripts, now held in the archive of the Museum of the

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