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''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
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
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
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
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.
Further reading
*
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)
References
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See also
* Grandfather Ivan
Grandfather Ivan ( bg, Дядо Иван) is a folklore image of Russia in the minds of Bulgarians from the times of the Bulgarian National Revival, portraying Russia as a benevolent, protective force.
Ivan is a Slavic form of the biblical name ...
* Moscow, third Rome
Moscow, third Rome (; ) is a theological and political concept asserting Moscow as the successor to ancient Rome, with the Russian world carrying forward the legacy of the Roman Empire. The term "third Rome" refers to a historical topic of debate ...
17th-century history books
Historiography of Bulgaria