''The Kingdom of the Slavs'' ( it, Il Regno de gli Slavi) is a book by

Mavro Orbini Mavro Orbini (1563–1614) was a Ragusan chronicler, notable for his work '' The Realm of the Slavs'' (1601) which influenced Slavic ideology and historiography in the later centuries. Life Orbini was born in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik), the capital ...

published in the Italian city of

Pesaro Pesaro () is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, ...

in 1601. The book provided a history of the

Slavic peoples Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout ...

. The historical context of the work is the Long Turkish War and the loss of the position of the southern Slavs in the rule of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

after the hanging of

Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu Michael Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzenus ( el, Μιχαὴλ Καντακουζηνός, 1510 – died 3 March 1578), nicknamed Şeytanoğlu (Turkish for "son of the Devil"), was an Ottoman Greek magnate, noted for his immense wealth and political inf ...

(March 3, 1578) and the assassination of

Grand Vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (October 11, 1579). The

Venetian Republic The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, ...

, through its protégés, Validе Sultanas, succeeded in displacing the Republic of Dubrovnik from its position in the Mediterranean trade by constructing a port in Split.The concession for the renovation of the port of Split was won by the Portuguese maran
of the Venetian service, Daniel Rodriguez, who is one of the prototypes of "The Merchant of Venice".] After Peter the Great declared himself Emperor, his first order was to translate into Russian and publish this book. The book played a huge role in the emergence of pan-Slavism.

*
Indetermi-Nation: Narrative identity and symbolic politics in early modern Illyrism
by Zrinka Blažević, in ''Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe]'', Koninklijke Brill (2010) *
Croatia: A Nation Formed in War
' by Marcus Tanner, Yale University Press (1997) *
Entangled Histories Of The Balkans - Volume One
' ed. by Roumen Dontchev Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov, Koninklijke Brill (2013) *
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods
' by Larry Wolff, Stanford University Press (2002) *
Our Kingdom Come: The Counter-Reformation, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and the Liberation of the Balkan Slavs
' by Zdenko Zlatar, East European Monographs (1992)

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