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Identifier: travelsinslavoni00mack (find matches)
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
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fence of freedom; and this monument, asLamartine observed, marks the true frontier of Serbia. Mountains,At the point where Old Serbia meets with Monte-negro, we find the highest mountains in Turkey-in-Europe, and their most elevated summits, Kom andDormitor, rise from 8000 to 9000 feet. Liubatern,6000 feet, we have already noticed as marking thewestern end of the Shaar Planina, at the corner wherethe Pass of Katchanik debouches on the plain ofKossovo. Plains^ BiverSy Towns, &c. The heart of Old Serbia, both historically and geo-graphically, is formed by the sister plains of Metochia andKossovo. On or near Kossovo are situated the towns ofPrishtina, Novo Berdo, Gilan, Vuchitern, the monasteryof Gratchanitza, and the site of the famous old churchof Samodresha. The castle of Svetchani, once a resi-dence of the kings of Serbia, occupies an eminence atthe northern entrance of the plain. The field of Metochia lies west of Kossovo, and isseparated by the low chain of the Golesh hills. On
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CHAr. XVII.) STARA SERBIA. 245 this plain, as at once the centre of the Serb lands anda fertile spot in a defensible position, the Nemanidesfixed their capital, and afterwards Stephen Dushantransferred thither the seat of the patriarch. TheCzarigrad Prizren lay but a few hours distant from theecclesiastical city Ipek, and between the two stood thefamous church of Detchani, of which the king who builtit felt so proud, that he took his name from it, and hasgone down to posterity as Urosh Detchanski. Through-out national poetry Kossovo is celebrated as the battle-field, Metochia as the garden, of Serbia. It would appear that the districts included in StaraSerbia, together with the southern part of the modernPrincipality, were in old times peopled by the richestand most civilised portion of the nation. Most of thehigher nobles, whose family names are perpetuated inthe Book of Serbian aristocracy,* appear to haveheld their residence in this part of the realm; whilethe beautiful churches st

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