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Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ay on the neighbouringBlack Mountain. We twice traversed the lake of Skadar, once on theTurkish steamer and once in a Montenegrlne barge,which last took us from Rieka to visit the Princes * Podgoritza fut fondee au XYe. siecle par ordre du Sultan Maho-met II. avec les mines de Iantique Dioclea et non loin de Templacementde cette yille, qui se troavait, suivant M. le Colonel Kowaleski, au lieuoil est aujourdhui Dukla, petit village ^ une heure et au nordouest dePodgoritza, Ce vojageur a trouve 1^ des colonnes encore debouts,des portes avec des inscriptions latines, et la trace danciens remparts.—Hecquaeds Albamey p. 73. Mr. Denton has described Podgoritzaand the site of Dioclea in Good JVordsy September 1866. He noticesthat the chief place of the district, now also called Podgoritza, lies onthe banks of the little river Ribnitza, a name noted by Old-Serbianchroniclers, who describe the birth-place of the great I^emania as * Rib-nitza in Zeta. lit i liilllil; IT;:;! m V I iliilii III!
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CHAP. xxxiY.) SCODRA OR SKADAR. 539 sister in her house at Tsernitza. On neither occasiondid we make out a halt at Podgoritza, but the Mon-tenegrines rowed us as close as possible under the footof the castle hill of Zabliak, telling us all the timehow Ivan Tsernoievitch once lived there in his whitecastle, and how, rather than become a Mahometanand hold his land in vassalage of the Sultan, he andhis warriors betook themselves to the hills. Near theMontenegrme village Rieka, Ivan had a tower calledObod, and somewhere thereabouts he lies buried, orrather sleeping, in a cave, while the Vilas watch him.He and Marko Kralievitch may be expected to awakeabout the same time. This Ivan Tsernoievitch, or Ivan Beg, as the Turkscalled him, was one of those princes of Zeta underwhom it maintained independence for about 100 yearsafter the battle of Kossovo. From the time that therulers of Serbia took to residing in the inland dis-tricts, Zeta was frequently the appanage of the secondperson in the r

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