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Dimitrije Karaman
Dimitrije Karaman (Lipova, Arad, c. 1500-Lipova, Arad, after 1555) was an early Serbian poet and bard. The earliest known Serbian Guslar is referred to in 1551 by Hungarian historian Sebestyen Tinodi Lantos, who wrote in his Chronicles: In addition, describes the performance, explaining that the bard (guslar) is sitting and holding the gusle between his knees, breaks its cords in the highly emotional artistic performance, with a sad and dedicated expression on his face. Karaman did not confine himself to his gusle, but was also a soldier, and often took part in the battles against the Ottoman Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent who were then menacing Western Europe. See also *Gusle *Serbian epic poetry *Filip Višnjić *Tešan Podrugović *Old Rashko *Djuro Milutinović the Blind Djordje (Djuro) Milutinović (also known as the "Montenegrin"; 1774–1844) was a blind ''guslar'', at the time of the First Serbian Uprising. He was known as a trusted messenger of military plans and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipova, Arad
Lipova (; German and Hungarian: ''Lippa''; Serbian: Липова, ''Lipova''; Turkish: ''Lipva'') is a town in Romania, Arad County, located in the Banat region. It is situated at a distance of from Arad, the county capital, at the contact zone of the river Mureș with the , the Western Plateau, and the Lipova Hills. It administers two villages, Radna (''Máriaradna'') and Șoimoș (''Solymosvár''), and its total surface is . The first written record of the town dates back to 1315 under the name ''Lipwa''. In 1324 the settlement was mentioned as castellanus de Lypua, a place-name that reflects its reinforced character of that time. Population According to the census of 2011 the population of the town was 9,648 inhabitants. The ethnic groups were: 94% Romanians, 2.89% Hungarians, 1.47% Roma, 1.27% Germans, 0.07% Slovaks, 0.18% Ukrainians and 0.1% of other or undeclared nationalities. Etymology Its name is derived from the Slavic word '' lipa'', linden tree, with the '' - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusle
The gusle ( sr-cyrl, гусле) or lahuta ( sq, lahutë) is a single-stringed musical instrument (and musical style) traditionally used in the Dinarides region of Southeastern Europe (in the Balkans). The instrument is always accompanied by singing; musical folklore, specifically epic poetry. The gusle player holds the instrument vertically between his knees, with the left hand fingers on the strings. The strings are never pressed to the neck, giving a harmonic and unique sound. Singing to the accompaniment of the Gusle as a part of Serbia's intangible cultural heritage was inscribed in 2018 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. Origin There is no consensus about the origin of the instrument. 6th-century Byzantine Greek historian Theophylact Simocatta ( 630) wrote about "small lyres" brought by the Slavs who settled the Balkans; some researchers believe that this might have been the gusle. Others, such as F. Sachs, believe that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suleiman The Magnificent
Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. Under his administration, the Ottoman Empire ruled over at least 25 million people. Suleiman succeeded his father, Selim I, as sultan on 30 September 1520 and began his reign with campaigns against the Christian powers in central Europe and the Mediterranean. Belgrade fell to him in 1521 and the island of Rhodes in 1522–23. At Mohács, in August 1526, Suleiman broke the military strength of Hungary. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th-century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's economic, military and political power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusle
The gusle ( sr-cyrl, гусле) or lahuta ( sq, lahutë) is a single-stringed musical instrument (and musical style) traditionally used in the Dinarides region of Southeastern Europe (in the Balkans). The instrument is always accompanied by singing; musical folklore, specifically epic poetry. The gusle player holds the instrument vertically between his knees, with the left hand fingers on the strings. The strings are never pressed to the neck, giving a harmonic and unique sound. Singing to the accompaniment of the Gusle as a part of Serbia's intangible cultural heritage was inscribed in 2018 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. Origin There is no consensus about the origin of the instrument. 6th-century Byzantine Greek historian Theophylact Simocatta ( 630) wrote about "small lyres" brought by the Slavs who settled the Balkans; some researchers believe that this might have been the gusle. Others, such as F. Sachs, believe that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Epic Poetry
Serbian epic poetry ( sr, Српске епске народне песме, Srpske epske narodne pesme) is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centuries. They are largely concerned with historical events and personages. The instrument accompanying the epic poetry is the ''gusle''. Serbian epic poetry helped in developing the Serbian national identity, Serbian national consciousness. The cycles of Prince Marko, the Hajduks and Uskoks inspired the Serbs to restore freedom and their heroic past. The Hajduks in particular, are seen as an integral part of national identity; in stories, the hajduks were heroes: they had played the role of the Serbian elite during Ottoman rule, they had defended the Serbs against Ottoman oppression, and prepared for the national liberation and contributed to it in the Serbian R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Višnjić
Filip Višnjić ( sr-cyr, Филип Вишњић, ; 1767–1834) was a Serbian epic poet and ''guslar''. His repertoire included 13 original epic poems chronicling the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and four reinterpreted epics from different periods of history of Serbia. Born in a village near Ugljevik, Višnjić went blind at the age of eight or nine after contracting smallpox. He lost his family early in life, and began playing the ''gusle'' and reciting epic poetry around the age of 20. He spent years wandering the Balkans as a vagabond, and performed and begged for a living. His storytelling abilities attracted the attention of a number of influential figures, and around 1797, he married into an affluent family. In 1809, he relocated to Serbia with his wife and children, and experienced first-hand the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottomans. He performed in military camps, hoping to raise the morale of the rebels, and composed epic poems recounting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tešan Podrugović
Tešan Podrugović ( sr, Тешан Подруговић) (Kazanci, Gacko, Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire 1775 — Sremski Karlovci, Austrian Empire 1815) was Serbian merchant, hayduk, storyteller and gusle player ( sr, guslar) who participated in the First Serbian Uprising and Second Serbian Uprising. He was one of the most important sources for Serbian epic poetry recorded by Vuk Karadžić. Podrugović did not sing but used to 'speak' his poems; he understood and felt the poems and thought about what he said. He was Serbia's best known fiddle player (guslar) after Filip Višnjić. Podrugović's family was from the village of Kazanci in the municipality of Gacko. Songs Vuk Karadžić recorded for the first time many songs sung by Podrugović. The poem about Musa Kesedžija, named ''Marko Kraljević and Musa Kesedžija'', recited by Podrugović was recorded for the first time in Sremski Karlovci in 1815 by Vuk Karadžić. The song about General Vuča was also recorded by Kara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Rashko
Old Rashko or Old man Raško ( sr, Старац Рашко; Старац Рашко Колашинац) was a Serbian storyteller and gusle player (''guslar'') known as one of the most important sources of the epic poetry recorded by Vuk Karadžić. Biography Rashko was born in the region of Old Herzegovina, like Tešan Podrugović, but later moved to Kolašin. According to some theories, he was probably a brother of Marko, the grandfather of Svetozar Marković. At the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising, Rashko came to the village of Sabanta in the Jagodina nahiyah. He participated in the First Serbian Uprising and distinguished himself in the Battle of Lipar (1804), in which he raised the revolutionary flag, and the Battle of Deligrad (1806). Songs Old Rashko was illiterate. Based on his singing, Vuk Karadžić recorded some of the best poems with motifs derived from medieval Serbian history, like ''The Building of Skadar'' or ''Uroš and the Sons of Marnyava''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djuro Milutinović The Blind
Djordje (Djuro) Milutinović (also known as the "Montenegrin"; 1774–1844) was a blind ''guslar'', at the time of the First Serbian Uprising. He was known as a trusted messenger of military plans and diplomatic secrets during the preparation and eve of the First Serbian Uprising. Milutinović was born in 1774 in Grahovo, Nikšić. He lost his eyesight at his age of sixteen or seventeen, and from then on he began to compose epic songs of current events on the ''gusle''. At the time of the preparation of the First Serbian Uprising, he served as an interlocutor among the institutions in Serbia and Montenegro. During 1813, Djuro was in close contact with Karadjordje. After the fall of the First Serbian Uprising, and the invasion of Serbia by the Ottoman Turks, many refugees were taken from the borders of Serbian lands to be colonized on the large estates of the Serbian gentry in exile in Wallachia, Moldavia, Bessarabia and Imperial Russia. He first went to Graz and then to Bessarabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Serbian Poets
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—most recently part of the Eastern Roman ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
