''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 o ...

published in the Italian city of Pesaro in 1601. The book provided a history of the Slavic peoples. The historical context of the work is the

Long Turkish War The Long Turkish War or Thirteen Years' War was an indecisive land war between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, primarily over the Principalities of Wallachia, Transylvania, and Moldavia. It was waged from 1593 to 1606 but in Europ ...

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 i ...

(March 3, 1578) and the assassination of Grand Vizier

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Sokollu Mehmed Pasha ( ota, صوقوللى محمد پاشا, Ṣoḳollu Meḥmed Pașa, tr, Sokollu Mehmet Paşa; ; ; 1506 – 11 October 1579) was an Ottoman statesman most notable for being the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Born in ...

(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 hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world" , population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century , currency = ...

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.

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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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