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Bishop's Palace, Vršac
The Bishop's Palace ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Владичански двор, Vladičanski dvor) in Vršac, city in the region of Banat in Vojvodina, Serbia, is the official residence of the Bishop of the Eparchy of Banat of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The palace was built between 1750 and 1757 at the time of bishop Jovan Georgijević making it the only baroque style ecclesiastical residence of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The building holds valuable sacral object such as 18th century iconostasis in its chapel on the second floor, as well as 14th century icon from Kyiv as well as 292 other icons and various 19th and early 20th century paintings. The building is listed as a part of the Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance. History The building was constructed between 1750 and 1757 after the seat of the eparchy moved from Caransebeș in Romania where predominant Eastern Orthodox community became Romanian Orthodox, to then German and Serb inhabited Vršac. Both cities at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vršac
Vršac ( sr-Cyrl, Вршац, ) is a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2022, the city urban area had a population of 31,946, while the city administrative area had 45,462 inhabitants. It is located in the geographical region of Banat. Etymology The name ''Vršac'' is of Serbian origin, ultimately deriving from Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ, meaning "summit". In Serbian, the city is known as Вршац or ''Vršac'', in Romanian as ''Vârșeț'' or Vîrșeț, in Hungarian as ''Versec'' or ''Versecz'', in German as ''Werschetz'', and in Turkish as ''Virşac'' or ''Verşe''. History The uniqueness of Vršac is reflected in the fact that it has been inhabited since the dawn of the first cultures. Thus, the oldest traces of human presence in Banat originate precisely from Vršac, since individual finds of Paleolithic flint tools from the middle and younger Paleolithic, Mousterian and Aurignacian cultures were found on the slopes of the Vršac Mountains. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a mainly continental climate, and an area of with a population of 19 million people. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, empties into the Danube Delta in the southeast of the country. The Carpathian Mountains cross Romania from the north to the southwest and include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Bucharest is the country's Bucharest metropolitan area, largest urban area and Economy of Romania, financial centre. Other major urban centers, urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timiș ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Assumption Of The Theotokos, Vršac
The Church of the Assumption of the Theotokos () in Vršac is Serbian Orthodox church in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is commonly referred to as Mala crkva (''Little Church'') and Aleksina crkva (''Aleksa's Church''). Aleksa Nikolić from the name was a merchant from Vršac who funded the building of the church. The treasury of this church houses two Gospels of significant historical value. The first was printed in Moscow in 1762 and was gifted by Alekse Nikolić, while the second was presented to the church by Bishop Jovan Georgijević. The oldest parish record dates from 1767. History The building was constructed between 1761 and 1768 under Bishop Jovan Georgijević and consecrated in 1775 by Bishop Vikentije Popović. Iconostasis of the church was painted between 1792 and 1809 by Arsenije Arsa Teodorović, woodcarving by Pantelejmon Nikolajević and the most recent wall icons by Karel Napravnik in 1946 after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia. By installation of a metal fence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of St
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Patriarchate Court, Sremski Karlovci
The Patriarchate Court (, ) is a listed historical building which was the seat of the Patriarchate of Karlovci between 1848 and 1920, in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia. The building remained as the unofficial seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church after the unification of 1920 until 1930 when the Serbian Patriarch moved his episcopal seat to Belgrade. Today, it is the seat of the Eparchy of Srem. The building is protected and listed as an Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance. History The palace was built between 1892 and 1895 as a project of Serbian architect Vladimir Nikolić on the site of the old "Pasha's Konak". Pasha's Konak was the first residence of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church after transferring from the Archbishopric of Peć to Sremski Karlovci. Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović established a fund in 1817 to raise money for the construction of the palace, which was built during the reign of Metropolitan Georgije Branković. Construction of the palac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop's Palace, Novi Sad
The Bishop's Palace ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Владичански двор, Vladičanski dvor, , , ) in Novi Sad, capital of Vojvodina, Serbia, is the official residence of the Bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is prominent architectural landmarks in the city centre of Novi Sad. It is recognized for its cultural and historical value and has been listed as a protected cultural monument of the Republic of Serbia. History The original palace was constructed in 1741 by Bishop Visarion Pavlović, located near the newly built Saint George's Cathedral. However, it was destroyed during the bombing of Novi Sad in June 1849 during the Serb uprising of 1848–49. The palace was completed in 1901 and has since served as the residence of the Bishop of Bačka. Its facade, featuring bifora windows inspired by medieval Serbian monasteries. After the unification of Banat, Bačka and Baranja with Kingdom of Serbia in the process of creation of Yugoslavia, during a vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risalit
An ''avant-corps'' ( or , plural , , ), a French term literally meaning "fore-body", is a part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the ''corps de logis'', often taller than other parts of the building.Curl, James Stevens (2006). ''Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture'', 2nd ed., OUP, Oxford and New York, p. 52. . It is common in façades in French Baroque architecture. Particularly in German architecture, a corner ''Risalit'' is where two wings meet at right angles. Baroque three-winged constructions often incorporate a median ''Risalit'' in a main hall or a stairwell, such as in Weißenstein Palace Weißenstein () is a town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Weißenstein lies in the lower Drau valley northwest of Villach. The highest point in the municipality is the Spitzeck at 1517 m, and the lo ... and the . Sources ''Much of the text of this article comes from the equivalent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavrilo Zmejanović
Gavrilo Zmejanović ( sr-Cyrl, Гаврило Змејановић; 25 August 1847 – 14 October 1932) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an unconfirmed Serbian Patriarch. Life Gavrilo Zmejanović was born on 25 August 1847 in Dobanovci in Srem, to father Mihailo, a priest, and mother Eva - née Andrejević. He finished elementary Serbian school and civic German school, then High School of Karlovci and the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Sremski Karlovci. He then graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Altenburg, Germany. From 1870 to 1882 he studied economics and natural sciences. In 1876, he fought as a Serbian volunteer-insurgent on the Drina and he was one of the chat leaders. He returned home, wounded. This was later taken as evil by the Serb haters."Политика"... Monastic life Zmejanović became a monk at the invitation of Serbian Patriarch Herman Andjelic, in 1882 in the Krusedol monastery. He became a Deacon on 19 November 1882, and the next day a Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussia
Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, History of Berlin, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. Prussia formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by 1932 Prussian coup d'état, an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and ''de jure'' by Abolition of Prussia, an Allied decree in 1947. The name ''Prussia'' derives from the Old Prussians who were conquered by the Teutonic Knightsan organized Catholic medieval Military order (religious society), military order of Pru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, it was the third most populous monarchy in Europe after the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, while geographically, it was the third-largest empire in Europe after the Russian Empire and the First French Empire. The empire was proclaimed by Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II in 1804 in response to Napoleon's declaration of the First French Empire, unifying all Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg possessions under one central government. It remained part of the Holy Roman Empire until the latter's dissolution in 1806. It continued fighting against Napoleon throughout the Napoleonic Wars, except for a period between 1809 and 1813, when Austria was first allied with Napoleon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Orthodox
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It is the only autocephalous church within Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for liturgical use. The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as ''Dreapta credință'' ("right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caransebeș
Caransebeș (; ; , Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a city in Caraș-Severin County, part of the Banat region in southwestern Romania. One village, Jupa (), is administered by the city. The city is located at the confluence of the Timiș River with the Sebeș River, the latter flowing from the Țarcu Mountains. To the west, it is in direct contact with the Banat Hills. It is an important railroad node, being located approximately 40 km from the county seat, Reșița, 21 km from Oțelu Roșu, 70 km from Hațeg, and about 25 km from the Muntele Mic ski resort, in the Țarcu Mountains. Climate Caransebeș has an oceanic climate (''Cfb'' in the Köppen climate classification), with an average of , but summers can be warm, with an average of . Rainfall can be quite abundant throughout the year. History The first traces of habitation here might date as far as Dacian times. Dacian ruins have been discovered recently near Obreja, a village 7 km away. As t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
