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Konstantin Mihailović

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Konstantin Mihailović, also known as Constantine of Ostravica, born in 1430, was a Serbian soldier and author of a memoir of his time as a Jannissary in the army of the Ottoman Empire. [1]

51 relations: Agiou Pavlou monastery, Antonije Bagaš, Belgrade, Bram Stoker, Camel, Castle, Constantine of Kostenets, Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev, Danube, Decapitation, Dracula, Edirne, Elder Grigorije, Elder Siluan, Fortification, Gabriel the Hilandarian, Gregory Tsamblak, Horse, Hungary, Impalement, Isaija the Monk, Janissaries, Kosovo, Lazar the Serb, Legend, Matthias Corvinus, Mehmed the Conqueror, Memoir, Military of the Ottoman Empire, Miroslav Gospel, Monastery of the Holy Archangels, Novel, Novo Brdo, Ostrvica Fortress, Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire, Pachomius the Serb, Pristina, Rudnik (Gornji Milanovac), Samokovo, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbian Despotate, Serbs, Siege, Siege of Belgrade (1456), Silver, Sofia, Sultan, Teodosije the Hilandarian, Vlad the Impaler, ..., Wallachia. Expand index (1 more) »

Agiou Pavlou monastery

Agiou Pavlou monastery (Μονή Αγίου Παύλου; Mănăstirea Sfântul Pavel) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos, located on the easternmost peninsula of Chalkidiki, Greece.

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Antonije Bagaš

Anthony Bagaš (Антоније Багаш; fl. 1366 – 1385) was a Serbian nobleman from Kastoria who retreated to Mount Athos in between 1356 and 1366, where he later bought and restored the ruined Athonite monastery of Saint Paul (Agiou Pavlou) with the help of Nikola-Gerasim Radonja (the son of sebastokrator Branko Mladenović) in the 1380s, becoming its abbott - taking the monastic name Arsenios (Arsenije).

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Camel

A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

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Castle

A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Constantine of Kostenets

Constantine of Kostenets (Konstantin Kostenechki; born ca. 1380, died after 1431), also known as Constantine the Philosopher (Константин Филозоф), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and chronicler, who spent most of his life in the Serbian Despotate.

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Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev

Cyprian (Киприан, Киприан, Кипріан) (c. 1336 – 16 September 1406) was Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' with the Metropolitan's residence in Moscow.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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Decapitation

Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Edirne

Edirne, historically known as Adrianople (Hadrianopolis in Latin or Adrianoupolis in Greek, founded by the Roman emperor Hadrian on the site of a previous Thracian settlement named Uskudama), is a city in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne in the region of East Thrace, close to Turkey's borders with Greece and Bulgaria.

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Elder Grigorije

Elder Grigorije (Старац Григорије; 1310–55) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and writer.

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Elder Siluan

Siluan (Силуан; 14th century) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and poet who lived and worked in the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos in the 14th century.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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Gabriel the Hilandarian

Gabriel the Hilandarian (1359–d. after 1412) was a Serbian monk-scribe.

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Gregory Tsamblak

Gregory Tsamblak or Grigorij Camblak (Григорий Цамблак; (c.1365-1420) was a Bulgarian writer and cleric, metropolitan of Kiev between 1413 and 1420. A Bulgarian noble, Tsamblak lived and worked Bulgaria, but also in Medieval Serbia as well as in Kyivan Rus and indebted these two countries to himself through his literary works, which represent a heritage of their national literatures, particularly the style of Old Serbian Vita made popular in the monasteries of the 12th century.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Impalement

Impalement, as a method of execution and also torture, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso.

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Isaija the Monk

Isaija the Monk (Инок Исаија; ca. 1300–after 1375), also known as Elder Isaija (Старац Исаија) and Isaija of Serres (Исаија Серски), was a 14th-century Serbian monk, one of many Serbian monk-scribes in the Middle Ages who translated ancient Greek manuscripts into the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic.

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Janissaries

The Janissaries (يڭيچرى, meaning "new soldier") were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe.

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Kosovo

Kosovo (Kosova or Kosovë; Косово) is a partially recognised state and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe that declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo (Republika e Kosovës; Република Косово / Republika Kosovo).

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Lazar the Serb

Lazar (Лазар, Лазарь), also known as Lazar the Serb or Lazar the Hilandarian (fl. 1404), was a Serbian Orthodox monk and horologist who invented and built the first known mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404.

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Legend

Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.

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Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I (Hunyadi Mátyás, Matija Korvin, Matia Corvin, Matej Korvín, Matyáš Korvín), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490.

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Mehmed the Conqueror

Mehmed II (محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i sānī; Modern II.; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Fatih Sultan Mehmet), was an Ottoman Sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Military of the Ottoman Empire

The history of the military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods.

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Miroslav Gospel

Miroslav's Gospel (Мирослављево Јеванђеље / Miroslavljevo Jevanđelje) is a 362-page illuminated manuscript Gospel Book on parchment with very rich decorations.

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Monastery of the Holy Archangels

The Monastery of the Holy Archangels (Манастир Светих Архангела/Manastir Svetih Arhangela, Manastiri i Arkangjelit të Shenjtë) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, in southern Kosovo, founded by the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan (reigned 1331–1355) between 1343 and 1352 on the site of an earlier church, part of the Višegrad fortress complex.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Novo Brdo

Novo Brdo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ново Брдо), or Novobërda or Artana (Novobërdë or Artanë), is a town and municipality located in the Pristina district of eastern Kosovo.

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Ostrvica Fortress

Ostrvica or Ostrovica (Sivrice Hisar) was a small fortified town built on one of the peaks of Rudnik mountain, northwest of the town of Rudnik.

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Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Islamic Ottoman Empire era of rule in the Bosnia and Herzegovina region lasted from 1463/1482 to 1878.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Pachomius the Serb

Pachomius the Serb (Пахомий Серб, Пахомије Србин), also known as Pachomius Logothetes, Пахомий Логофет, Παχώμιος Λογοθέτης) was a 15th-century Serbian hagiographer who, after taking monastic vows, was schooled on Mount Athos and mastered the ornate style of medieval Serbian literature.G. M. Prokhorov, “Pakhomii Serb,” in D. S. Likhachev, Slovar’ knizhnikov i knizhnosti Drevnei Rusi, vol. 2, Pervaia polovina XIV-XVI v., pt. 2. In the 1450s and 1460s he resided at the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius north of Moscow. One of his major undertakings was a Russian translation of the New Testament. In about 1470 Archbishop Jonas (Iona) asked him to settle in Novgorod where he prepared a set of the lives of local saints. It has been suggested that The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir was also authored by Pachomius.

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Pristina

Pristina (Prishtina or Prishtinë) or Priština (Приштина), is the capital and largest city of Kosovo.

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Rudnik (Gornji Milanovac)

Rudnik is a small town in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia.

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Samokovo

Samokovo is a village in the municipality of Kuršumlija, Serbia.

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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Српска академија наука и уметности/Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, abbr. САНУ/SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841.

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Serbian Despotate

The Serbian Despotate (Српска деспотовина / Srpska despotovina) was a medieval Serbian state in the first half of the 15th century.

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Serbs

The Serbs (Срби / Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group that formed in the Balkans.

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Siege

A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault.

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Siege of Belgrade (1456)

The Siege of Belgrade, Battle of Belgrade or Siege of Nándorfehérvár was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred from July 4–22, 1456.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Sofia

Sofia (Со́фия, tr.) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Teodosije the Hilandarian

Teodosije the Hilandarian (Теодосије Хиландарац/Teodosije Hilandarac; 1246–1328) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages; the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts named him one of the 100 most prominent Serbs.

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Vlad the Impaler

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (1428/311476/77), was voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death.

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Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia (Țara Românească; archaic: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рȣмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Mihailović

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