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Society Of Saint Sava
The Society of Saint Sava or Saint Sava Society ( sr, Друштво „Свети Сава“/Društvo „Sveti Sava“) was a Serbian non-governmental association with the aim of maintaining and protecting the Serb people in the Ottoman Empire, in Old Serbia and Macedonia (region), Macedonia, and in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 1886 in Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia. It was active, with a brief pause during the First World War, until the Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941). History Work in Macedonia The society worked for dissemination of Serbian propaganda in the region of Macedonia and Old Serbia. The Society offered paid scholarships to those who called themselves Association of Serbo-Macedonians, Serbo-Macedonians. The society organized in Serbia specialized schools for children of Macedonia and Old Serbia and developed a propaganda among the Macedonians working in Serbia. Only three years later, its executive body became part of the Minis ...
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Old Serbia
Old Serbia ( sr, Стара Србија, Stara Srbija) is a Serbian historiographical term that is used to describe the territory that according to the dominant school of Serbian historiography in the late 19th century formed the core of the Serbian Empire in 1346-71. The term does not refer to a defined region but over time in the late 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century it came to include the regions of Raška, Kosovo and Metohija and much of modern North Macedonia. The term Old Serbians ( sr, Старосрбијанци, Starosrbijanci, links=no) were used as designations by Serb authors and later governments for Slavic populations from regions such as Vardar Macedonia. In modern historiography, the concept of Old Serbia as it developed in the 19th century has been criticised as a historical myth, based often on invented or tendentiously interpreted historical events. Terminology Vuk Stefanović Karadžić referred to "Old Serbia" as a territory of ...
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Petar Pop Arsov
Petar Pop-Arsov ( bg, Петър Попарсов, mk, Петар Поп Арсов) originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography: ''Петъръ попъ Арсовъ''; (14 August 1868 – 1 January 1941) was a Bulgarian educator and revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia, one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), known in its early times as ''Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees'' (BMARC). Although he was Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, and thought of his compatriots as Bulgarians, according to the post-WWII Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian. Early life He was born in 1868 in the village of Bogomila, near Veles. He was one of the leaders of the student protest in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in 1887/1888 where the main objective was to replace the East Bulgarian dialect with a Macedonian dialect in the lecturing. As a consequence, he was expelled a ...
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Temko Popov
Temko Popov ( Macedonian: Темко Попов) was a pro-Macedonian activist and Serbian national worker in the Ottoman Empire. He espoused in his youth, according to Bulgarian sources, developed a kind of Macedonian pro-Serbian identity. Per Serbian sources, this plan was used by Serbian politicians as a counterweight to Bulgarian influence and to serbianize the Macedonian Slavs. Life Popov was born in Ohrid, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from high school in Athens, Greece. In Athens he worked in various Orthodox agencies. Then Temko worked as a teacher in Edirne and afterwards in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Bitola. Subsequently, he moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he was among the founders of the secret Macedonian Society established in 1886 to promote some kind of ''pro-Serbian'' sentiments and ideas among the Macedonian Slavs, so as to distinguish them especially from the ethnic identity of the Bulgarians. The other leaders were Naum Evrov, Kosta Grupčev ...
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Firmilijan Drazic
Firmilijan Dražić (secular name Dimitrije Dražić; Serbian Cyrillic: Фирмилијан Дражић; Šabac, Principality of Serbia, 20 August 1852 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 7 December 1903) was the Metropolitan of Skopje, from 1902 to 1903. He was the first Serb to head the Metropolitanate of Skopje after the abolition of the Peć Patriarchate:Sava, episkop šumadijski, Srpski jerarsi od devetog do dvadesetog veka, Evrp Beograd (1996), str 498 Biography He was born and baptized Dimitrije Dražić in Šabac on 20 August 1852. He finished Gymnasium in Šabac, and worked as a merchant for four years.Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, Beograd 1929, knjiga 1, 560 He became a monk and was given the name of Firmilijan in 1869 in the Petkovica monastery. He attended the '' Bogoslovija'', the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Saint Sava in Belgrade. He studied theology first on the island of Halki in Heybeliada in the Sea of Marmara, and then in Athens. While i ...
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Miloš Milojević (lawyer)
Miloš S. Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Милош С. Милојевић; 1840–1897) was a Serbian lawyer, writer and politician. His work has been described as "at a ridge between history and literature", mostly for his travel-recording genre. Biography Miloš S. Milojević, son of a parish priest, was born at Crna Bara in Mačva, Serbia, on 16 October 1840. He graduated with a law degree from Belgrade's Velika škola in 1862; studied philosophy, philology and history at the University of Moscow, from 1862 to 1865. His professor was Osip Bodyansky. He didn't wait to graduate and in 1866 Milojević returned to Serbia to work for the government judicial system, and later taught at high schools in Valjevo, Belgrade and Leskovac. He died in Belgrade on 24 June 1897. He was buried in Novo Groblje. Historiography In 1887 his approach to historiography was challenged and debated by Ilarion Ruvarac and Ljubomir Kovačević and eventually proved erroneous through critical methods, thou ...
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Panta Srećković
Pantelija Srećković ( sr-Cyrl, Пантелија Срећковић; 3 November 1834 – 8 July 1903), also known as Panta Srećković (Панта Срећковић) was a Serbian historian and academician, the dean of the Grandes écoles (''Velika Škola'') in 1884–85, and again in 1890. Biography Panta Srećković was born in Veliko Krčmare to Slavko (born in 1788) and Marija-Baba (1793-1878), daughter of Proko Ivanović of Zabojnica who participated in the First and Second Serbian uprisings, as well as in the Miloje Đak Rebellion in 1825 on the side of Miloš Obrenović. His paternal grandfather, Srećko Stefanović, was a participant in the Habsburg-occupied Serbia (1788-1792) and during the First Serbian Uprising led 1,000 soldiers (as binbashi) in Lepenica. Panta Srećković attended grammar school at Malo Krčmare in the Rača region (Šumadija District), the Gymnasium at Drača, School of Theology in Belgrade's Bogoslovija and post-graduate studies at the ...
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Ljubomir Kovačević
Ljubomir Kovačević (4 January 1848 – 19 November 1918) was a Serbian writer, historian, academic, and politician. He is one of the early creators of the Serbian critical historiographical school and fighters for the separation of historical science from tradition. Kovačević directly influenced the political and cultural activity of Serbia at the end of the nineteenth century. He and Ljubomir Jovanović were the authors of the well-known two-volume "Istorija srpskog naroda za srednje škole" (History of the Serbian People for the Secondary Schools) in the Kingdom of Serbia. Both Kovačević and Jovanović were Ministers of Education at one time and, as historians, using a wealth of verified information, professionally and convincingly refuted many myths that were passed down through the ages. Biography Kovačević was born in the village of Petnica in the Principality of Serbia on 4 January 1848. His father was Mihailo Kovačević, the Serbian Orthodox parish priest of Petni ...
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Milan Đ
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, m ...
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Stevan Vladislav Kaćanski
Stevan Vladislav Kaćanski - "Stari Bard" (Srbobran, Habsburg Empire, 19 December 1828 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 4 May 1890) was a popular Serbian poet of the second half of the 19th century at the most turbulent time in Europe during the Revolutions of 1848 in general and the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire in particular Most of his poems were inspired by the poetic dream of Serbian liberation and unification. Today he is considered Serbia's national poet, who was one of the key figures of the Serb Revolution of 1848. He is best known as the author of ''Noćnica'', which is said to have inspired the Serbs to seek independence from the Kingdom of Hungary though within the territories of the Austrian Empire. Biography Stevan Vladislav Kaćanski was born into a respectable family, in Srbobran, in Bačka. His parents were Trifon and Julijana , inhabitants of Srbobran. The family got its surname from the village of Kać, from where they moved at the end of the ...
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Kosta Šumenković
Kosta Šumenković ( Borovac, then under the Ottoman Empire, 1829 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 1905) was a merchant, Serbian national worker and volunteer in the Serbian-Turkish wars of 1876-1878 and the Serbian-Bulgarian War. He was the founder of the Society of St. Sava with Svetomir Nikolajević. Biography Kosta Šumenković was born on 16 November 1829 In the village of Borovac in Drimkol."Нова искра", Београд 1900. године - in the Struga nahija of the Ohrid ''kaza'' of the Ottoman Empire. He was a descendant of the famous hajduk Nedeljko called "Šumin", and the son of Atanasij and Jane. Hence the surname: "Šumin", or "Šumen" - then "Šumenkovic". Kosta did not attend school, as a very young man, he went to work. After the Crimean War 1853-1856, he went to Serbia where he practices '' bozadjijstvo''. He also visited Imperial Russia, Austria and Germany, where he traded. Upon his return to Belgrade, he invested the money he earned and opened a ...
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Serbomans
Serbomans (Serbo-Croatian and mk, србомани, srbomani; bg, сърбомани, sarbomani; ro, sârbomani) is a Bulgarian pejorative term used by Bulgarian nationalists for inhabitants in the region of Macedonia that claimed Serbian ethnicity (declared as Serbs) and supported Serbian national ideals until the middle of the 20th century. They explained it by imposed by the Serbian propaganda secondary identity with result that a Bulgarian population had lost its real nationality. It is also still used pejoratively by Bulgarians to refer to residents of North Macedonia who proclaimed a separate Macedonian identity and act to subdue Bulgarian nationalism in Macedonia. The term first appeared during the time of the Serbian-Bulgarian rivalry for present-day North Macedonia during the second half of the 19th century.
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