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The boundary between the domains of the Kosača and the Branković south of the Tara river / Заједничка граница области Косача и области Бранковића јужно од реке Таре
(Balcanica, 2004)
With the partitioning in 1373 of the domain of Nikola Altomanović, a Serbian feudal lord, the old political core of the Serbian heartland was shattered and the feudal Bosnian state considerably extended to the east. The ...
Patterns of martyrial sanctity in the royal ideology of medieval Serbia continuity and change
(Balcanica, 2006)
Especially important for the development of the holy king concept with the Serbs appears to be the early period of Serbian sovereignty, initially in Zeta, and subsequently in Raška under Stefan Nemanja and his descendants. ...
Serbo-Albanian bank in Albania 1925-1927
(Balcanica, 2006)
The Serbo-Albanian Bank was founded at Cetinje in 1922, at the time Yugoslav-Albanian diplomatic relations were established, with the purpose of opening its branch offices in Albania in order to contribute to closer economic ...
The Vlach funeral laments: Tradition revisited / Влашке тужбалице - други поглед на традиција
(Balcanica, 2004)
In the present study I have analyzed three Vlach funeral laments audio-recorded in 2004, during the fieldtrip to Valakonje, near Boljevac Serbia. I have taken into discussion the dynamics of the Vlach community and its ...
Slav beliefs on changelings / Словенска веровања о подметнутом детету
(Balcanica, 2002)
Beliefs and legends that certain mythological creatures - fairies, witches, the devil, (vile, veštice, đavo, boginka, mamuna, baenik, domovoj, leshi) etc. can take away the child from the mother and exchange it for its own ...
The ephemeral Croatian orthodox church and its Bosnian extension / L’éphémère Eglise orthodoxe croate et son prolongement bosniaque
(Balcanica, 2006)
The so-called Croatian Orthodox Church was an ephemeral creation of the Ustachi regime founded in 1942 in Croatia. The analysis of its founder Malsinov, an archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in exile, doubtlessly ...
Kassandra in the Ottoman Documents from Chilandar (Hilandar) Monastery (Mount Athos) in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2009)
The rich archive of the Athonite Monastery of Hilandar contains a group of Ottoman documents relating to the promontory of Kassandra. Hilandar did not begin to acquire land in Kassandra until the very end of the sixteenth ...
Byzantine emperor and frescoes in Mileševa narthex / Византијски цар и фреске у припрати Милешеве
(Balcanica, 2002)
The unique appearance of the portrait of an unknown monarch in Byzantine emperor attire on the south wall of Mileševa narthex, painted opposite the figure of Stephen the First-Crowned, attracted much attention of researchers ...
Romanisation of the population of the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia / Романизација становништва источног дела римске провинције Далмације
(Balcanica, 2003)
It is considered that the territory of the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia was inhabited by the population of the same ethnic and cultural identity. The process of romanization of population in the eastern ...
On tabooization of mouse name in Central Balkans / О табиузацији назива миша на централном Балкану
(Balcanica, 2002)
Obredne radnje u cilju zaštite od miševa poznate su praktično svim kulturama, a u pojedinim oblastima, koje su mogle u većoj meri da budu izložene najezdi glodara, može se očekivati i šira zastupljenost „mišje obrednosti“. ...