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Đurađ Bošković
Đurađ Bošković also spelled Djurdje Bošković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурaђ Бошковић; Belgrade, Serbia, 11 April 1904 - Belgrade, Serbia, 29 November 1990) was a Serbian art historian, one of the most important researchers of Serbian medieval architecture. Biography He was educated in Belgrade. He studied at the Technical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, where he graduated in 1928 from the Department of Architecture. He worked as the curator of the National Museum in Belgrade between 1930 and 1939. He became an assistant professor at the Technical Faculty in 1939, an associate professor in 1946 and a full professor in 1950. From 1954, he was the director of the Archaeological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was a prominent pedagogue in the fields of archeology and art history, and he gathered around him students interested in conservation and research work. He was the editor of the magazine ''Starinar'', which affirmed itself as one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, 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, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradac Monastery
The Gradac Monastery (, ) is a Serbian Orthodox Monastery. It lies on the elevated plateau above the river Gradačka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. It is an endowment of queen Helen which was built from 1277 to 1282 during the reign of her son king Stefan Dragutin. Gradac Monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Serbia. History The monastery was built from 1277 to 1282 and is an endowment of Helen of Anjou, the wife of king Uroš I. The monastery is situated in Stara Raška region, on the wooded and secluded slopes of Golija mountain on the place called by locals Petrov Krš. It is located west of the medieval fortress Brvenik. The monastery complex was included the large building Church of The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, the smaller temple St. Nicholas, a dining room, quarters and the economic building. The monastery church is a single-nave structure with a dome, a tripartite a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Belgrade Faculty Of Architecture Alumni
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Serbian Art Historians
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People From Belgrade
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Deaths
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1904 Births
Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin. * January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death. * January 23 – The Ålesund fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter. * January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics. February * February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Millet
Gabriel Millet (17 April 1867 – 8 May 1953) was a French archaeologist and historian. Biography After he passed his Agrégation, agrégation of history in 1891, Gabriel Millet became a member of the French School at Athens, then director of the École pratique des hautes études in religious sciences in 1899, and professor at the Collège de France in 1927. A voyager, he travelled throughout Europe, Greece, Macedonia (region), Macedonia, the Balkans. In 1906 Gabriel Millet, Vladimir Petković (art historian), Vladimir Petković and Josef Strzygowski began research on Serbian painting, which they "acclaimed it to be among the finest creations of medieval Europe". After the trip he wrote books, including his university thesis, on the findings of his research in Serbia. Millet was the author of numerous books on Byzantine art. In 1930, in collaboration with Louis Bréhier, he led an archaeological mission to Mount Athos. He founded the series "Archives d'Athos" at the College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stari Bar
Stari Bar ( cyrl, Стари Бар, ; lit. "Old Bar") is a small town in Montenegro. It is located inland, three kiolmeters from the new city of Bar. According to the 2003 census, the town has a population of 1,864 people. Geography Stari Bar is located on a hilltop (Londša hill) overlooking the Adriatic Sea, at the foot of Mount Rumija. It is surrounded by agricultural land. Bar is south of the Bay of Kotor between the fortresses at Budva (Buva) to the northwest and Ulcinj to the southeast. History In the Early Middle Ages, Antivari () remained a subject of the Byzantine Empire, as part of the Theme of Dyrrhacium. Stefan Vojislav, incorporated it into his state in 1040, and his family till 1090, after which it became part of the medieval Serbian state culminating in the Empire under the Nemanjić dynasty. It was briefly annexed by the Republic of Venice, until Louis I of Hungary forced the Republic of Venice to renounce the Dalmatian towns in 1358 (Treaty of Zadar). Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojislav Korać
Vojislav Korać (1924–2010) was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian and academic. An ethnic Serb, he was born in Debelo Brdo in Udbina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...). Selected works * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Korac, Vojislav 1924 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Architecture in Serbia Serbian academics Serbs of Croatia People from Udbina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
