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Matija Vuković
Matija Vuković (Platičevo, 26 July 1925 – Belgrade, 21 June 1985) was a Serbian sculptor. Biography Matija Vuković was born into a poor farming family in Platičevo, on 26 July 1925. From his native village, near Ruma, after primary school, in 1937, the boy and his mother move to Belgrade, near the studios of the famous sculptor Toma Rosandić. He was fascinated by the Maestros "huge figures", then Mestrović's sculptures, and then in one of the books he got as a present book, he saw Michelangelo's Moses. All this will paved his way into the art. Vuković attended private art school of Mladen Josić in 1941 – 1942. Immediately after the liberation of the Belgrade, in October 1944, Matija Vuković was mobilized and sent to the Syrmian Front, where, during a charge, he was wounded in the hand. He returned home as a disabled veteran and – devoted himself entirely to sculpture. Having successfully met the entrance exam, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platičevo
Platičevo () is a village in Serbia. It is located in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,760 people (2002 census). Historical population *1961: 2,726 *1971: 2,824 *1981: 2,812 *1991: 2,809 See also *List of places in Serbia *List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina References *Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. External links Platičevo {{SremRS-geo-stub Populated places in Syrmia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrnjačka Banja
Vrnjačka Banja ( sr-cyr, Врњачка Бања) is a town and municipality located in the Raška District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 10,065 inhabitants, while the population of the municipality is 27,527 inhabitants. Vrnjačka Banja has many hot springs with temperatures measuring exactly that of the human body (37.5 degrees Celsius). Settlements Aside from the town of Vrnjačka Banja, the municipality includes the following settlements: * Vraneši * Vrnjci * Vukušica * Goč * Gračac * Lipova * Novo Selo * Otorci * Podunavci * Rsavci * Ruđinci * Stanišinci * Štulac Demographics According to the last official census done in 2011, the municipality of Vrnjačka Banja has 27,527 inhabitants. Population density on the territory of the municipality is 115.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Ethnic groups Most of its population are ethnic Serbs (96.2%) and 36.6% of the municipality’s population is urban. The ethnic composition of the munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Bogdanović
Kosta may refer to: * Kosta, Estonia, a village in Vihula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia * Kosta, Greece a community in Greece * Kosta, Sweden, a village in Sweden * Coastal Andhra, region in India * Kosta Glasbruk, a glassworks in Sweden * Constantine (name), a shortened form common in Bulgaria and Greece (Kostandino) * Kosta (given name), Serbian masculine given name * Kosta (architectural feature), in Hindu temples See also * * Costa (other) * Costas (other) Kostas or Costas ( el, Κώστας) is a Greek given name and surname. As a given name it is the hypocorism for Konstantinos ( Constantine). Given name * Costas Andreou, Greek musician * Kostas Antetokounmpo (born 1997), a Greek basketball player ... * Koshta, a Hindu caste {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đorđe Kadijević
Đorđe Kadijević ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Кадијевић; 6 January 1933) is a Serbian and Yugoslav film director, screenwriter and art critic. Kadijević is well known for his horror films and for TV series ''Vuk Karadžić'', which won the Grand prix in Rome and was protected as European Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, on the proposition of Umberto Eco. He was awarded the Sretenje Order by the Republic of Serbia. Filmography * '' Praznik'' (1967) * '' Pohod'' (1968) * '' Heksaptih'' (1968) * '' Darovi moje rođake Marije'' (1969) * '' Žarki'' (1970) * '' Čudo'' (1971) * '' Pukovnikovica'' (1972) * '' Devičanska svirka'' (1973) * '' Štićenik'' (1973) * '' Leptirica'' (1973) * '' Zakletva'' (1974) * ''Marija'' (1976) * '' Beogradska deca'' (1976) * '' Aranđelov udes'' (1976) * '' Čovek koji je pojeo vuka'' (1981) * '' Živo meso'' (1981) * '' Karađorđeva smrt'' (1983) * '' Sveto mesto'' (1990) * '' Napadač'' (1993) TV series * ''Vuk Karadžić Vuk St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pariz
Pariz ( fa, پاریز, also Romanized as Pārīz; also known as Rīz and Bariz) is a city and capital of Pariz District, in Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 4,527, in 1,231 families. References Populated places in Sirjan County Cities in Kerman Province {{Sirjan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miodrag B
Miodrag ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг) is a South Slavonic, for all purposes almost exclusively Serbian, masculine given name, derived from ''mio'' ("tender, cute") and '' drag'' ("dear, beloved"), both common in Slavonic dithematic names. It may refer to: * Miodrag Anđelković, Serbian footballer *Miodrag Belodedici, Romanian football central defender *Miodrag Božović, Montenegrin football manager and former player *Miodrag Bulatović, Montenegrin Serb novelist and playwright *Miodrag Džudović, Montenegrin footballer * Miodrag "Skale" Gvozdenović, Montenegrin volleyball player *Miodrag Ješić, Serbian footballer and football manager *Miodrag Jovanović (footballer born 1922), Serbian footballer * Miodrag Jovanović (footballer born 1977), Serbian footballer *Miodrag Koljević, Montenegrin diplomat in Russian Federation * Miodrag Kojadinović, Serbian-Canadian writer and researcher * Miodrag Krivokapić (actor), Serbian actor * Miodrag Krivokapić (footballer), Montenegrin former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, Istočno Sarajevo, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Located within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans, a region of Southern Europe. Sarajevo is the political, financial, social and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a prominent center of culture in the Balkans. It exerts region-wide influence in entertainment, media, fashion and the arts. Due to its long history of religious and cultural diversity, Sarajevo is sometimes called the "Jerusalem of Europe" or "Jerusalem of the Balkans". It is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Trifunović
Lazar Trifunović ( Belgrade, 14 January 1929 – Paris, 23 July 1983) was a Serbian art historian, art critic and professor at the University of Belgrade. Biography He attended primary school and grammar school in Belgrade and graduated in art history 1955 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, where he earned in 1960 his PhD with the dissertation "Serbian painting in the first half of the XX century". He was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade from 1957 to 1976 when he was elected full professor of the History of Modern Art. From 1962 to 1968 he was the director of National Museum in Belgrade. He was the founder and for a time the director of the Contemporary Gallery in Niš. He was an art critic for almost three decades. As a student, he started publishing texts in "Vidici" and "Narodni student", publishing texts in '' NIN'', ''Politika'', and ''Umetnost'', where he was the editor-in-chief, and other magazines and newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beograd
Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it '' Singidūn''. It was conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and awarded Roman city rights in the mid-2nd century. It was settled by the Slavs in the 520s, and changed hands several times between the Byzantine Empire, the Frankish Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, and the Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavle Stefanović
Pavle ( Macedonian and sr-cyr, Павле; ka, პავლე) is a Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian and Georgian male given name corresponding to English Paul; the name is of biblical origin (cf. Saint Paul). People known mononymously as Pavle include: * Pavle I, Serbian Patriarch (c. 1526–1541), Serbian Orthodox bishop * Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (1914–2009), Serbian Orthodox Patriarch People with this name include: * Pavle Abramidze (1901–1989), Georgian Soviet general * Pavle Dešpalj (born 1934), Croatian composer and conductor * Pavle Đurišić (1909–1945), Montenegrin Serb Chetnik army commander * Pavle Gregorić (1892–1989), Croatian communist politician * Pavle Ingorokva (1893–1983), Georgian historian * Pavle Ivić (1924–1999), Serbian linguist * Pavle "Paja" Jovanović (1859–1957), Serbian painter * Pavle Jurina (1954–2011), Croatian handball player * Pavle Kalinić (born 1959), Croatian politician and writer * Pavle Karađorđević (1893–1976) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 76,511 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 123,362 inhabitants (2011 census data). The old name for Zrenjanin is Veliki Bečkerek or ''Nagybecskerek'' as it was known under Austria-Hungary up until 1918. Zrenjanin is the largest city in the Serbian part of the Banat geographical region, and the third largest city in Vojvodina (after Novi Sad and Subotica). The city was designated European city of sport. Name The city was named after Žarko Zrenjanin (1902–1942) in 1946 in honour and remembrance of his name. One of the leaders of the Vojvodina Communism, communist Partisans (Yugoslavia), Partisans during World War II, he was imprisoned and released afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kragujevac
Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River. , the city proper has a population of 150,835, while its administrative area comprises a total of 179,417 inhabitants. Kragujevac was the first capital of modern Serbia and the first constitution in the Balkans, the Sretenje Constitution, was proclaimed in the city in 1838. A unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service was located there in World War I. During the Second World War, Kragujevac was the site of a massacre by the Nazis in which 2,778 Serb men and boys were killed. Modern Kragujevac is known for its large munitions (Zastava Arms) and automobile (FCA Srbija) industries, as well as its status as an education centre housing the University of Kragujevac, one of the region's largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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