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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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it asthe base of a campanile. Its walls are covered withfrescoes, of which the colours are still in part fresh, andthe inscriptions legible ; on one side is a picture of theLast Supper, and of SS. Cosmo, Damian, Pantaloon,&c. ; on the other, portraits of the Nemanyitch family,in long gem-bordered garments, and with glories roundtheir heads. The priest declared this porch to be oflater date than the church, and his opinion is confirmedin so far as that the royal personages there repre-sented belong to a generation later than the firstN^mania. In the church you see himself, repre- * We had uufortunately left pencils and notebooks behind us, so couldnot write down the names on the spot. Hilferding enumerates among thefrescoes the following names :—1. Saint Simeon, JsTemania, lord of all theSerbian lands, 1159—1195. 2. Stephen Pervovenchani, Simon Monach,1195—1228. 3. Stephan Krai Ourosh, Simeon Monach, 1240—1272.4. Yelena Velika Kralitza, daughter of Emperor Baldwin, who then
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INTERIOR OF SERBIAN CHURCH. CHAP. XXI.) NOYI BAZAAR. 311 sented as founder, holding the model of the building ;there, too, is his son and coadjutor, St. Sava, depictedwith a long fair beard ; also his patron, St. George, withthe dragon. The relics of another Nemanyitch used tolie in a side chapel, but were stolen thence some timeago ; we saw the broken tomb, but did not distinctlygather who the occupant had been, nor whither thebody was gone. Hilferding calls him King Dragutin,and heard that his bones had been lifted by thefamily Znobitch of Novi Bazaar, who thereby broughta curse on themselves and their posterity. From the outer building it is some paces to the westdoor of the church, and on the way the priest pointedout a shattered column of red stone, which had formedpart of the doorway. Ho said : This was throwndown quite lately by Turkish soldiers from Prizren. The church of Giurgevi Stiipovi is one of the oldestspecimens of Serbian architecture, it is also one of themost simple;

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