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A picture says a thousand words

Celebrating Serbs,Serbia,Republika Srpska,Crna Gora and all things SERBIAN






















 
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Karl Malden was born Mladen Djordje Sekulovic to a Bosnian Serb father and a Czech mother

"Malden often found ways to say "Sekulovich" in films and television shows in which he appeared. For example, as General Omar Bradley in Patton, as his troops slog their way through enemy fire in Sicily, Malden says "Hand me that helmet, Sekulovich" to another soldier. In Dead Ringer, as a police detective in the squad room, Malden tells another detective: "Sekulovich, gimme my hat." In Fear Strikes Out, Malden, playing Jimmy Piersall's father John, introduces Jimmy to a baseball scout named Sekulovich. In Birdman of Alcatraz, as a prison warden touring the cell block, Malden recites a list of inmates' names, including Sekulovich. (Malden's father was not pleased, as he told his son "Mladen, no Sekulovich has ever been in prison!") In On the Waterfront, in which Malden plays the priest, among the names of the officers of Local 374 called out in the courtroom scene is Mladen Sekulovich, Delegate. Perhaps the most notable usage of his real name, however, was in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco. Malden's character in the program, Mike Stone, employed a legman (played by Art Metrano) with that name, who did various errands."
 
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Cele Kula











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Piling up heaps of skulls of your vanquished foes represented the apogee of barbaric warlord behavior.

This ancient practice survived in some cultures well into the historic times. Ćele Kula, (lit. Skull Tower) in Niš Serbia, built in 1809 by Turkish general Hurshi Pasha out of skulls of defeated Serb rebels represents one of the most recent and best preserved examples of this tradition.

The year 1809 marked the turning point in the course of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire (1804-1813). The outnumbered rebel army faced a 36,000 strong force of Turkish imperial guards near the strategically important southern city of Niš. Rather then surrender or flee they decided to put up a desperate last stand at Čegar Hill. Faced with imminent annihilation, the rebel commander Stevan Sinđelić in an act of desperation fired a shot into a gunpowder keg at the fully stocked gun powder room, blowing up his entire army as well as wiping out enemy soldiers who were already flooding the rebel trenches.

Deeply angered by the rebel force's actions, the Turkish commander Hurshid Pasha decided to teach a grim lesson to the Serbian nation. The bodies of the dead rebels were mutilated. Their skins were pealed off their decapitated heads, stuffed up with straw, and sent to the Imperial court in Istanbul as proof of Turkish victory. The skulls were used as building blocks for a tower built by the main road at the entrance of the city. A warning to the local populace of an impending fate to any potential future rebels.

In total, 952 skulls were used. In its original form, the tower stood 15 feet high and 13 feet wide. Skulls were arranged in 56 rows, with 17 skulls in each row, at each side of the tower. The skull of rebel commander Stevan Sinđelić was placed at the top. This gruesome edifice, left a deep scar in the Serbian national psyche. However, it failed at its purpose. The Serbs rebelled again in 1815, this time successfully, driving off the Turks and winning independence in 1830.

In the years immediately following the building of the tower, the families of deceased rebels chiseled away some of the skulls in order to give them proper funerals. Today 58 skulls in total remain in the tower.

The authorities of Serbia in 1892 built a chapel around the tower to preserve this unique monument representing the nations bravery and sufferings. The skull of Stevan Sinđelić is also on display at the chapel.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skull-tower-nis

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"My eyes and my heart greeted the remains of those brave men whose cut-off heads made the cornerstone of the independence of their homeland. May the Serbs keep this monument! It will always teach their children the value of the independence of a people, showing them the real price their fathers had to pay for it. ”

-Alphonse de Lamartine
 
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Manastir Visoki Dečani



The Dečani Monastery was built in the mid 14th century for the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski, and it is also his mausoleum. The church represents the last important phase of Byzantine-Romanesque architecture in the Balkan region. Built in marble, it is the largest of all medieval Balkan churches, and is exceptionally rich in wellpreserved Byzantine painting and Romanesque sculpture.

Dečani Monastery holds an exceptional place in the Serbian national consciousness as one of the most magnificent monuments of Serbian culture and history. Because of the dimensions of the church, which by far surpass the size of all the other medieval Balkan churches, the monastery has been popularly named High Dečani (Visoki Dečani). The Dečani church represents the largest preserved monument of Byzantine painting, the largest entirety of Romanic sculpture on the Balkans, one of the most complex architectural achievements of the 14th century, and one of the most authentically preserved sacral interiors on the territory under Byzantine cultural and artistic influence.

http://www.sitiunescoadriatico.org/index.php?pg=2070









 
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Petrovaradinska tvrđava

Towering over the river on a 40m-high volcanic slab, this mighty citadel (tvrđava ) is aptly nicknamed 'Gibraltar on the Danube'. Constructed with slave labour between 1692 and 1780, its dungeons have held notable prisoners including Karađorđe (leader of the first uprising against the Turks and founder of a dynasty) and Tito.

















http://www.nsparty.rs/galerije/g28#t
 
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Andrićgrad is the name of an ongoing construction project located in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina by director Emir Kusturica. The town is dedicated to Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andrić, Nobel prize winner.

Construction of Andrićgrad, also known as Kamengrad ("Stonetown") started on 28 June 2011, and was officially opened on 28 June 2014, with the grand opening marking the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip.

Andrićgrad is located several kilometers from Kusturica's first town, Drvengrad, in Serbia.

Andrićgrad is located near the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and streaches from the bridge up to the confluence of Rzav River. After Drvengrad (English: Woodentown) this is the second village Kusturica created from scratch. Andrićgrad is to be used as a filming location for the Emir's new film Na Drini ćuprija, based on The Bridge on the Drina novel by Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivo Andrić.























http://www.andricgrad.com/galerija-slika/
 
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"There resteth to Serbia a glory,
A glory that shall not grow old;
There remaineth to Serbia a story,
A tale to be chanted and told!
They are gone to their graves grim and gory
The beautiful, brave, and bold;
But out of the darkness and desolation
Of the mourning heart of a widow'd nation,
Their memory waketh an exultation!
Yea, so long as a babe shall be born,
Or there resteth a man in the land -
So long as a blade of corn
Shall be reap'd by a human hand -
So long as the grass shall grow
On the mighty plain of Kosovo -
So long, so long, even so,
Shall the glory of those remain
Who this day in battle were slain."
 
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Hram Svetog Save



The Cathedral of Saint Sava or sometimes referred to as Temple of Saint Sava is the great Orthodox Church located in the heart of Belgrade, Serbia, by the Danube. Being the biggest Orthodox Church in the world, it also ranks amongst the top ten biggest church buildings in the world with its fascinating architecture. In Serbian, the building is called “Hram/ Храм”, which means temple. In Eastern Orthodox culture, the word temple is used instead of the word “Church”.

Saint Sava (1174 - 1236) was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the Serbian Church and the founder of Serbian law and literature.

In 1595, after a Serbian uprising against the Ottoman control, Ottoman Turks burnt Saint Sava’s remains. Exactly 300 years after that, in 1895, Serbian community founded “the Society for the Construction of the Cathedral of Saint Sava on Vračar” in central Belgrade. The main aim of this foundation was to build a cathedral on the place where the burning of Saint Sava's remains was conducted. The construction only started 40 years after the main idea of the cathedral was launched in 1935. The construction of the cathedral was interrupted by the 1941 bombing of Belgrade, and the German Occupation during the Second World War and finally by the Red Army and Partisans in 1944. It wasn’t until 1984 that they decided to carry on with the construction of the cathedral.

With its tall and beautiful domes, and its fascinating interior design, the Cathedral of Saint Sava now stands as one of the most important landmarks of Belgrade along the Danube.











 
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Gavrilo Princip



On the Gavrilo Princip mural, the slogan reads: ‘Our shadows will be wandering through Vienna, strolling through the court, frightening the lords’

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"Under Austro-Hungarian rule, Livno was the administrative centre for the area where Princip was born, and it was here that a police report was compiled by local officials after the assassination in 1914. The form comprises a list of boxes where standard details are recorded: name, occupation, parents' particulars. Under the 'reputation' category, a colonial officer had written simply: 'a weak boy'. Another of the boxes indicated the extent to which the colonisers from Vienna had failed to improve conditions for Bosnia's peasantry at the start of the twentieth century. The typed rubric demanded to know 'to whom does this serf belong?'. This time the official recorded that Princip was the feudal subject of two local lords, one named Jovic, the other Siercic.

It was during Princip's overland trip that his rage against the foreign ruler took root. He saw how the poverty he had known in Obljaj was replicated right across the country, regardless of the ethnicity of the rural community. The Austro-Hungarian authorities used to boast of how, under their rule, Bosnia benefited from new schools, industry and infrastructure, and they even goaded Princip at the trial that followed the assassination into describing the quality of life for Bosnian peasants. His answer leaves no doubt about how he regarded their plight:

'Of what do the sufferings of the people consist?' he was asked by a lawyer.

'That they are completely impoverished; that they are treated like cattle. The peasant is impoverished. They destroy him completely. I am a villager's son and I know how it is in the villages,' he answered."

(Butcher, T., "The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin who Brought the World to War", London, Random House, 2014: page 102-3)
 
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Guča

A tiny village nestled in the mountains of western Serbia hardly seems like an epicenter for world music.

It boasts 3,000 inhabitants. A handful of winding roads. Even fewer inns.

But for one weekend every year, the horns of Guca summon hundreds of thousands the world over to hear driving, colorful music -- and, of course, drink barrels of super-strong Serbian plum brandy.

Guca, you see, is the home of the Dragacevski Sabor, one of the most vibrant folk-music festivals in the world. Started in 1960, it features 20 brass bands competing for the title of the top Gypsy brass band of Serbia.

In Guca, when the horns are blaring, the wild music is accompanied by even wilder crowds. Revelers come by car, bus, even horse, mule and foot, to party. A traffic jam on the winding mountain road three miles long results in people just leaving their cars and walking the rest of the way.

When they get there, they stick money on the sweaty foreheads of musicians. They scream, dance and drink -- a lot.

It's a far cry from PlayhouseSquare.

No matter, says Bregovic.

"We only understand words if we are speaking the same language," he says. "Music, on the other hand, travels and transcends."













"I didn't know you could play trumpet that way." - Miles Davis
 
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