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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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panias intoa monarchical State. His death occurred in 1195, andfrom that date till 1367, the rulers of Serbia were allNemanides; a list of them and of their queens is sub-joined at the end of this volume. Of most of them wewill say nothing now ; but give our attention to thechange that came over the Serbian nation during itsexistence as a mediaeval kingdom. Serbia was more accessible to foreign intercoursethroughout this period of her history than at any other,before or since. Her kings intermarrying with the the Czar Turski, and so on, our own sovereign however being named, asthe Turks name her, merely Kralitza. This title is the feminine ofkral or king, a name applied to the kinglets before Nemania, or to rulerssubject to an emperor; it was, like many other Slavic words, borrowedby the Turks, and by them bestowed on all Christian rulers, until most ofthese formally insisted on being addressed as the equals of the Ottomansovereign. *Czarivati means, in Serbian, to rule as an emperor.
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PORTAL OF WHITE MARBLE CHURCH OF STUDENITZA, BUILT BY NEMANIA. I CHAP. XII.) THE STORY OF SERBIA. 153 daughters of Byzantium, France, and Venice, broughtthe influence of the most civihsed nations in Europe tobear upon their peoples; and such churches, frescoes,and MSS. as have escaped destruction, witness to theprogress then made in the Fine Arts. There was, more-over, a native channel, through which western influencefiltered into the wilds of Serbia ; namely, the free citieson the eastern shore of the Adriatic, which, Slavonicby lineage, occupied the site of Eoman colonies, andcombined the civihsation of Italy with allegiance to aSerbian king. Of this number we might cite severalsmall republics, which maintained their status almost toour own day; but among the most noted cities wereAntivari, Cattaro, and Ragusa, whose merchants wereonce to be found in every Serbian mart, while thenames of their artists still remain, graven on Serbianchurch portals or handed down in song. Various laws

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