The Building of Skadar or The Walling of the Skadar or The Founding of Skadar (Serbian: Зидање Скадра) is a poem of the pre-Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic...
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Immurement (category Causes of death)
famous versions of the same legend is the Serbian epic poem called The Building of Skadar (Зидање Скадра, Zidanje Skadra) published by Vuk Karadžić, after...
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Rozafa Castle (redirect from Castle of Shkodër)
well known version of the legend is the Serbian epic poem called The Building of Skadar (Зидање Скадра, Zidanje Skadra) published by Vuk Karadžić in 1815...
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example, the Serbian epic poem The Building of Skadar and the Romanian folk poem The Argeș Monastery embody the theme. One of the legends associated with Merlin...
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brothers that could only built the castle after they had to wall her alive. In Serbia, The Building of Skadar also uses the "bricked-in wife" trope. Similar...
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Vuk Karadžić (category History of the Serbo-Croatian language)
copy of his folksong collection to Jacob Grimm, who was enthralled particularly by The Building of Skadar which Karadžić recorded from singing of Old Rashko...
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Serbian epic poetry (category Instances of Lang-sr using second unnamed parameter)
Vuk Karadžić sent a copy of his folksong collection to Jacob Grimm, who was particularly enthralled by The Building of Skadar. Grimm translated it into...
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Human sacrifice (redirect from Human sacrifice in the Ancient Near East)
the Balkans (The Building of Skadar and Bridge of Arta). For the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that...
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Old Rashko (category People of the First Serbian Uprising)
enthralled by The Building of Skadar and described it as "one of the most touching poems of all nations and all times". He was also the source of the songs Four...
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epitomized by the practice of devşirme. The legend of Christian infants being buried alive within a bridge stems from The Building of Skadar, a Serbian epic...
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Belgrade Centre railway station (category Instances of Lang-sr using second unnamed parameter)
The Building of Skadar, where the town of Skadar was unsuccessfully built over a long time. With all its inadequacies (bad interconnection, lack of the...
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Ebu Beker Mosque (redirect from Skadar Mosque)
learning of the city and attracted notable Islamic scholars and theologians. A legacy of the Ottoman Empire destroyed by the People's Socialist Republic of Albania...
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Slavija Square (category Neighborhoods of Belgrade)
Skadar in which the construction of a fortress was hampered by a vengeful fairy who destroyed by night everything the workers would build by day. The...
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Filip Višnjić (category Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
poems chronicling the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and four reinterpreted epics from different periods of history of Serbia. Born in...
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Podgorica (redirect from Capital of Montenegro)
'under the hill') is the capital and largest city of Montenegro. The city is just north of Lake Skadar and close to coastal destinations on the Adriatic...
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Stanojlo Rajičić (category Academic staff of the University of Arts in Belgrade)
2000) was a Serbian composer and musicologist. A member of the interwar Prague group generation of Serbian composers along with other colleagues such as...
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Moračnik (island) (category Islands of Montenegro)
(Serbian Cyrillic: Морачник) is an island in Lake Skadar in the Montenegrin municipality of Bar. The Moračnik Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Морачник)...
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modernity, past and present. The heritage and tradition are emphasized by means of the restoration project of the historic building designed by Kole Idromeno...
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Belgrade (redirect from Capital of Yugoslavia)
gathered in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Skadar Street (the centre of Skadarlija) and the surrounding neighbourhood are lined with some of Belgrade's...
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Mesi Bridge (category Albanian building and structure stubs)
Bushati, the local Ottoman pasha, and spans the Kir River. The building was divided in 2 phases where the first phase was only the middle arc and the arc near...
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Cetinje (category Populated places established in the 1480s)
on the coast of Skadar lake. There is also a historic old road from Cetinje to Kotor, which is not of premium quality, but which overlooks the Bay of Kotor...
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Montenegro (redirect from Name of Montenegro)
mentioned for the first time in edicts issued by Stefan Uroš I to the Serbian Orthodox Zeta Episcopate seat at Vranjina island in Lake Skadar. It came to...
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channel, called Drinasa, joins the 44 km Bojana 3 km after that emerges from Lake Skadar. The Sateska (38 km) flows into the Black Drin (149 km) less than...
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Shaqari Islet (category Islands of Lake Skadar)
Albania in Lake Skadar. It is very small and is situated just opposite the village of Shiroka which stands on the largest lake in the Balkans. The island is...
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Montenegro vilayet (redirect from Vilayet of the Black Mountain)
jugoslovensko-albanskom graničnom području prema popisnom defteru sandžaka Skadar iz 1582/83. godine", Stanovništvo slovenskog porijekla u Albaniji : zbornik...
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War crimes in World War II (redirect from War crimes of the Second World War)
northern Albania with Skadar; the cleansing of the state territory of all national minorities and a-national elements; the creation of contiguous frontiers...
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Characterisation of Lakes Prespa, Ohrid and Shodra/Skadar. Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive in South-Eastern Europe Archived 2018-03-25 at the Wayback...
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of the Anglo-Albanian Association. When WW2 ended the building was turned into a museum. After Enver Hoxha ordered the clocks to be removed from the Tower...
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Chetniks (redirect from Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army)
northern Albania with Skadar; the cleansing of the state territory of all national minorities and a-national elements; the creation of contiguous frontiers...
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