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Jakov Orfelin
Jakov Orfelin (Cyrillic Serbian: Јаков Орфелин, born in Vukovar or Sremski Karlovci, Habsburg monarchy, c. mid-eighteenth century – Arad, Habsburg Monarchy, 20 October 1803) was a Serbian Baroque painter. He made iconostasis for the churches of Bačka and Syrmia regions and also some portraits. He is the nephew of the painter, engraver and writer Zaharije Orfelin. Biography Jakov Orfelin received his first artistic education from his uncle Zaharije Orfelin, with whom he collaborated on church commissions later. In 1766, he pursued his art studies in Vienna at the Art Academy and took courses at the newly-founded engraving academy directed by Jacob Matthias Schmutzer (1733-1811). One of his earliest work was the iconostasis in Grgeteg Monastery (1774) which was in 1902 replaced with the iconostasis done by Uroš Predić. In 1780-1781, he collaborated with Teodor Kračun in the iconostasis painting of the St. Nicholas Cathedral of Sremski Karlovci, consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vukovar
Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of Vukovar-Syrmia County and the second largest city in the county after Vinkovci. The city's registered population was 22,616 in the 2021 census, with a total of 23,536 in the municipality. Name The name ''Vukovar'' means 'town on the Vuka River' (''Vuko'' from the Vuka River, and ''vár'' from the Hungarian word for 'fortress'). The river was called "Ulca" in antiquity, probably from an Illyrian language. Its name might be related to the name of the river "Volga". In other languages, the city in German is known as ''Wukowar'' and in Hungarian as ''Vukovár'' or ''Valkóvár''. In the late 17th century, the medieval Croatian name Vukovo was supplanted by the Hungarian ''Vukovár''. In the Middle Ages, Vukovar was the seat of the great Vu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital Belgrade and the Sava and Danube Rivers. The administrative center, Novi Sad, is the second-largest city in Serbia. The historic regions of Banat, Bačka, and Syrmia overlap the province. Modern Vojvodina is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, with some 26 ethnic groups and six official languages. About two million people, nearly 27% of Serbia's population, live in the province. Naming ''Vojvodina'' is also the Serbian word for voivodeship, a type of duchy overseen by a voivode. The Serbian Voivodeship, a precursor to modern Vojvodina, was an Austrian province from 1849 to 1860. Its official name is the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its name in the province's six official languages is: * Croatian: ''Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obrež (Pećinci)
Obrež may refer to: * Obrež (Varvarin), Serbia * Obrež (Pećinci), Serbia * Obrež, Slovenia Obrez (from Russian: Обрез) may refer to: * A modified firearm, with barrel and stock cut down in length, for example a sawn-off shotgun. As a loan-word in English, the term most commonly refers to a Mosin-Nagant modified in such a configuration. {{Geodis fr:Obrež (Pećinci) sr:Обреж (Пећинци) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maradik
Maradik () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the region of Syrmia ( Syrmia District), in Inđija municipality. Maradik is located about 10 km west of Inđija. The village has a 60% Serb ethnic majority and its total population in 2011 was 2,095. Name In Serbian, the village is known as ''Maradik'' or Марадик, in Croatian as ''Maradik'', and in Hungarian as ''Maradék''. History After Hungarian Roman Catholic residents of the village were rejected by bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in their request to get Hungarian language speaking priest, their representatives went to Budapest to meet reformed bishop to request collective conversion to Protestantism. Ethnic groups (2002 census) *Serbs = 1,394 (60.66%) *Hungarians = 552 (24.02%) *Croats = 105 (4.57%) *Yugoslavs = 90 (3.92%) Historical population *1961: 2,651 *1971: 2,350 *1981: 2,255 *1991: 2,120 *2002: 2,298 *2011: 2,095 Famous People *Nenad Živković (De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grgeteg
Grgeteg () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Irig municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority among its population of 76, according to the 2011 census. Grgeteg is home to the Grgeteg Monastery, one of the sixteen monasteries on the Fruška Gora mountain. Geography Grgeteg is located in the region of Syrmia, on the southern slopes of Fruška Gora. The village is situated in the northeast of the municipality of Irig, on the Kalin creek. Its territory extends for , with a median altitude of above sea level. It is the least densely populated place in Vojvodina. Grgeteg is located from Novi Sad, from Irig, and from Ruma. History The history of the village is closely tied to the Grgeteg Monastery, which was founded in the 15th century. The village itself was developed in the 18th century as a , a rural village inhabited by serfs who were dependent on the religious institution. According to tradition, the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor Ilić Češljar
Teodor Ilić Češljar ( sr-cyr, Теодор Илић Чешљар) was a Serbian Rococo, late baroque painter from Vojvodina (then part of the Austrian Empire) best known for being the creator of the ''Royal Doors'' from Ostojićevo. Biography Češljar was born in 1746 in Čurug and died on November 20, 1793, at age 47 in Bačko Petrovo Selo (both now in Serbia). It is assumed that he learned to paint from famous masters of Timișoara and Novi Sad, where he lived in 1769. His first known work was a painting of four evangelists on church belfry in Buda in 1776 on which he worked together with colleague painter Mihailo Skokolović. According to so some older biographers, Češljar enrolled in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1786. He worked on his first iconostasis in 1789 in the church of Mokrin; after that, he worked in Velika Kikinda and Stara Kanjiža in 1791, and in Bačko Petrovo Selo from 1792 to 1793, when he died. Alongside this, he drew several icons for the lower church in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikinda
Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; hu, Nagykikinda) is a city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia . The city urban area has 38,069 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 59,453 inhabitants. The city was founded in the 18th century. From 1774 to 1874 Kikinda was the seat of the District of Velika Kikinda, an autonomous administrative unit of Habsburg monarchy. In 1893 Kikinda was granted the status of a city. The city became part of the Kingdom of Serbia (and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) in 1918, and it lost the city status. The status was re-granted in 2016. In 1996, the well-preserved archaeological remnants of a half a million-year-old mammoth were excavated on the outer edge of the town area. The mammoth called "Kika" has become one of the symbols of the town. Today it is exhibited in the National Museum of Kikinda. Other attractions of the city are the Suvača – a unique horse-powered dry mill, the annual Pumpk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Stratimirović
Stefan Stratimirović ( sr, Стефан Стратимировић; 27 December 1757 – 22 September 1836) was a Serbian bishop who served as the Metropolitan of Karlovci, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Austrian Empire, between 1790 and 1836. Having been appointed metropolitan at the age of 33, Stratimirović maintained control over church life decisively and autonomously. He was an aid to Serbian rebel leader Karađorđe during the First Serbian Uprising and actively participated in the suppression of Tican's Rebellion in 1807. Furthermore, he published Jovan Rajić's seminal work at a most propitious occasion. Early life and appointment Born in Kulpin, a town in the Military Frontier, Stratimirović's family hailed from Herzegovina. Stratimirović lived in a private estate awarded to his family by Marie Therese in 1745. He graduated from grade schools in Kulpin and Begeč and later attained the Gymnasium in Novi Sad, from which he also graduated. Stratim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarak
Jarak () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,235 people (2002 census). Name In Serbian, the village is known as ''Jarak'' (Јарак), in Croatian as ''Jarak'', and in Hungarian as ''Árki''. The word "jarak" means "trench" in Serbian. Historical population *1961: 2,083 *1971: 2,296 *1981: 2,092 *1991: 2,256 See also *List of places in Serbia *List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia. List of largest cities and towns in Vojvodina List of urban settlements in Vojvodina List of all urban settlements (cities and towns) in Vojvodina with populati ... References *Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. Populated places in Syrmia Sremska Mitrovica {{SremRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Gavrilović
Stefan Gavrilović ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Гавриловић, Sremski Karlovci, c. 1750-Sremski Karlovci, 1823) was an 18th-century-19th-century Serbian painter known best for his iconostasis and frescoes. He is considered one of the masters of Neoclassical and late Baroque paintings, and was very influenced by Jakov Orfelin and Teodor Kračun. Georgije Bakalović was one of his pupils. Gavrilović, whose work anticipated the arrival of the new artistic tendency—the Neoclassicism—had his studio workshop in Sremski Karlovci. He made many flags for the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. He authored Mojsije Putnik's portrait, among many other paintings, icons and frescoes Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster .... File:First Serbian Uprising early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraljevci, Serbia
Kraljevci () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,232 people (2002 census). Name The name of the town in Serbian is plural. See also *List of places in Serbia This is the list of populated places in Serbia (excluding Kosovo), as recorded by the 2002 census, sorted alphabetically by municipalities. Settlements denoted as " urban" (towns and cities) are marked bold. Population for every settlement is gi ... * List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina Populated places in Syrmia {{SremRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veliki Radinci
Veliki Radinci () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sremska Mitrovica municipality, in the Syrmia District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,426 people (2011 census). Name In Serbian, the village is known as ''Veliki Radinci'' (Велики Радинци), in Croatian as ''Veliki Radinci'', and in Hungarian as ''Radinc''. Its name derived from Serbian words ''veliki'' 'large, big' and ''raditi'' 'to work'. The name of the village in Serbian is plural. Demographics 1282 adult citizens live in the village. The average age of citizens is 39.1 years (37.8 for men and 40.4 for women). There are 607 households and the average number of members per household is 2.66. The majority of citizens are Serbs. See also * List of places in Serbia * List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia. List of largest cities and tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
