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Dușan Pârvulovici
Dușan Pârvulovici (born 6 July 1966; / ) is one of the main figures of the movement for the minority rights of the Timok Vlachs. This community lives in the Timok Valley, a region in Serbia where they lack churches and schools in their native Romanian language and are sometimes regarded as part of the Romanians. Pârvulovici has led and founded several organizations for human rights and for the emancipation of the Timok Vlachs, notably the Committee for Human Rights Negotin, the Federation of the Romanians of Serbia and the news agency Timoc Press. Serbian justice issued trials and criminal cases against Pârvulovici since 2005, and he was jailed for a year and a half in 2021, prompting a strong backlash from Romania. Biography Dușan Pârvulovici was born on 6 July 1966 in the town of Negotin, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Belgrade as an agricultural engineer. Pârvulovici is the president of the Committee for Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negotin
Negotin ( sr-cyrl, Неготин, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of Southern and Eastern Serbia, eastern Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 14,647, while the municipality has a population of 28,261 (2022 census). History Name The etymology of the town's name is unclear, and there are a few possibilities as to its background: # The Romance languages, Romance name origin thesis, such as the ''merchant place'' (cf. Romanian "negoț" or Spanish "negocios"), and the fact that Negotin is in a region with the presence of a significant Romanians, Romanian minority, similar to its namesake Negotino in North Macedonia with an Aromanians, Aromanian presence. # There is also the Slavonic languages, Slavonic origin hypothesis:, Proto-Slavonic "''něga''" (нѣгa) means "care" and the suffix "-ota//-otina" means "the action undergone or carried o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |