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 Serbian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serbian literature emerged in the Middle Ages, and included such works as Miroslavljevo jevanđelje (The Gospel of Miroslav) in 1192 and Dušanov zakonik (Dušan's Code) in 1349.
Written literature was produced only for religious use in churches and monasteries, and held to Old Church Slavonic.
In the mid-15th century, Serbia was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and, for the next 400 years there was no opportunity for the creation of secular written literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_language   (996 words)

  
 St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary - The Serbian Church and Milosevic
Many of the Serbian Church's present bishops and priests were among her most dissident clergy and her most persecuted confessors in the days of communism.
The Serbian Orthodox Church is no friend of the Milosevic regime; and Milosevic is no friend of the Serbian Church.
The patriarch's peacemaking activities, with the members of the Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and with Roman Catholic and Moslem leaders, have been firm and consistent.
http://www.svots.edu/Faculty/Thomas-Hopko/Articles/milosevic.html   (966 words)

  
 [Project Rastko] THE HISTORY OF SERBIAN CULTURE - Pavle Ivic: Standard language as an instrument of culture and the ...
Independently of the intentions of the Serbian church authorities, in the second half of the eighteenth century, other matters were introduced from Russia along with the religious ones.
The Orthodox church was tortuously restricted by the lack of church books necessary for the liturgy and for the training of the priesthood.
Loan words from Greek were central in the terminology of church life, contrasted with the terminology of religion itself which was consistently Slavonic.
http://www.rastko.org.yu/isk/pivic-standard_language.html   (4708 words)

  
 Serbian Church
The supreme authority of the Serbian Church, the Holy Synod, is composed of all its bishops, who meet once a year in May. There is also a standing Synod of four members who administer the day-to-day affairs of the church, which is estimated to number some nine million faithful.
The Serbian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, member of the Orthodox communion, located primarily in Serbia,Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
During the Second World War the Serbian Orthodox Church passed through severe trials in which many bishops, priests and about 700.000 lay Orthodox Christians were killed by Croatian and Moslem fascists.
http://www.stelijah.org/Church/serbian_church.html   (698 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church - Other Links
The Serbian Orthodox Encyclopaedia / Srpska Enciklopedija Pravoslavlja
Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Prince Lazar
St.Luke Serbian Orthodox Church; Washington; D.C. Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral
http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.com/pages/other/links   (630 words)

  
 Serbian Krsna Slava
Serbian people should never ignore their Krsna Slava because through it the Orthodox faith was preserved and they were held together through the centuries.
It is the most solemn day of the year for all Serbs of the Orthodox faith and has played a role of vital importance in the history of the Serbian people.
It is a beautiful and unique expression of the Orthodox faith that is deeply implanted in the Serbian Christian soul.
http://www.istocnik.com/articles/40/eng_slava.html   (1092 words)

  
 Serbian Unity Congress Serbian History
Among the creative aspects of the culture of the Serbian nation, traditional costumes occupy one of the most important places because of their role in everyday life, their significance for ethnic identity, and their value artistically and aesthetically.
Serbian rulers' ceremonial costume emerged from its Byzantine counterpart at the very moment when Serbian rulers chose to get close to Byzantium, politically as well as in matters of religion.
There were many factors that contributed to the forming of a Serb national identity by the dawn of the nation-building 19th century.
http://www.suc.org/culture/history   (1051 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Serbian Synod to Fight for Serbian Culture
The Synod of the Serb Orthodox Church says that the situation with the Serbian national written language, the Cyrillic alphabet, is threatening.
Serbian clergy addressed the Serbian community with an appeal to preserve their native written language.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/16/38264.html   (2681 words)

  
 St.Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Choir
Saint Sava is celebrated as the founder of the independent Serbian Orthodox Church and as patron saint of education and medicine among Serbs.
Saint Sava (1175 or 1176 - January 12, 1235 or 1236), originally the prince Rastko Nemanjic (son of the Serbian king Stefan Nemanja and brother of Stefan Prvovencani, founder of the Serbian medieval state), is the first Serb archbishop (1219-1233) and the most important saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Comprised of over fifty voices, the Mississauga based Saint Sava Serbian Church Choir is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating both the religious and secular choral music of the Serbian people.
http://www.stsavachoir.com   (1388 words)

  
 Serbian Cyrillic Letters BE, GHE, DE, PE, TE
Serbian Cyrillic Letters BE, GHE, DE, PE, TE*
Note that one letter, the lowercase be, may have a preferred variant form in both regular (roman) and italic fonts.
Serbian Cyrillic has different preferred shapes for italic Cyrillic letters б г д п т.
http://jankojs.tripod.com/SerbianCyr.htm   (1216 words)

  
 Serbian nationalism from the "Nacertanije" to the Yugoslav Kingdom
In the 1890s Pasic was Serbian ambassador to Russia, sent there by the king as a way to get him far away from the levers of power in Belgrade.
In the same way, it makes sense to look at Greece from 1821 up to 1923 and beyond: events as recent as the Cyprus crisis of the 1970s are extensions of nineteenth century issues.
There was no mention of a separate Croatian ethnicity or language: when Croats were identified, it was as "Catholic Serbs."
http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect13.htm   (4585 words)

  
 The Serbian Unity Congress and the Serbian Lobby
In a number of cities, the Serbian Community Center and Serbian Information Center are housed in the Orthodox Church.
It is through the Orthodox Church that the Hellenic community is being approached to support the Serbian lobby.
One argument used is that 'Serbs simply want to live with other Serbs' and that Serbian nationalism is no different from say German unification.
http://www.freeserbia.net/Documents/Lobby.html   (9670 words)

  
 Mitar Tarabich - Serbian Prophet
Being a religious person and having a local Serbian orthodox priest for a godfather, he told this priest about his episodes of "seeing into the future".
The following text is only a part from the book "Kremansko prorocanstvo" some details, from little known Serbian Prophet.
Mitar Tarabich (1829-1899), an illiterate peasant from a small Serbian village called Kremna, had experienced occasional prophetic visions.
http://www.crystalinks.com/tarabich.html   (3307 words)

  
 Serbian Translation - Translate Serbian Language Translator
Written literature was produced only for religious uses in churches and monasteries, which held to Old Church Slavonic and, by the end of 18th century, the written literature became estranged from the spoken language.
At the end of 14th century, Serbia was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and for the next 400 years there was no possibility for creation of secular written literature.
In early 19th century Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, following the work of Sava Mrkalj, reformed the cyrillic alphabet by introducing the phonetic principle, as well as promoted the spoken language of the people into literary norm.
http://www.translation-services-usa.com/languages/serbian.shtml   (428 words)

  
 SANE Serbian-American Alliance of New England
St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church of Boston offers scripture and Serbian language classes for children every Sunday following Divine Liturgy, except during the summer (see http://www.allston.com/st_sava).
The Serbian community, organized through the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, participated in the "cultural presentation."
- Holy Scripture and Serbian language were taught each Sunday at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church.
http://sane-boston.org/culture2.html   (1458 words)

  
 Serbian
Serbian The word Serbian might be: an adjective, meaning: "of Serbs" (Serbian tradition, Serbian religion) "of Serbia" (...
Party of Serbian Unity The Party of Serbian Unity (Serbia.
Patriarch Serbian List of heads of Serbian Orthodox Church: 3 External link Archbishops Saint Sava Saint Arsenije Saint...
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/serbian.html   (431 words)

  
 Serbian Bibles
Serbian New Testament from the World Bible Translation Center
The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Serbian.
You can purchase the Serbo-Croatian New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes By Hearing.
http://www.ethnicharvest.org/bibles/serbian.htm   (112 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church
Academy of Serbian Orthodox Church for Iconography and Conservation
Bezanija - Church of Saint Vasilije (serbian only)
Stokholm - Church of St. Sava (serbian only)
http://www.serbian-church.net/Linkovi/eparhije-e.html   (42 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church
The Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
http://www.serbian-church.net   (167 words)

  
 BBC Education - Languages
Serbian is written in Cyrillic script, but its Serbo-Croat heritage means it can also be seen written in the Latin alphabet.
One of the Southern Slavonic languages, Serbian is most closely related to Croatian, Bosnian and Slovene.
Due to the Balkan conflict, the different national groups established their own official languages, and the term Serbian is used to describe the official language of Serbia and Montenegro.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/serbian.shtml   (168 words)

  
 Serbian Resources
-- Available in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Indonesian, Macedonian, Serbian, Spanish, Filipino/Tagalog, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
http://peaches.nal.usda.gov/foodborne/fbindex/NonEnglish.asp?language=Serbian   (240 words)

  
 Serbian Children's Books, Serbian Desk Top Publishing, Serbian Dictionary, Serbian ESL-English as Second Language, ...
The Serbs, however, call their language Serbian, and being of Eastern Orthodox religious persuasion, write it in a modified form of the Cyrillic alphabet.
For each Cyrillic letter in the Serbian alphabet there is a corresponding Roman letter in the Croatian alphabet.
The Roman Catholic Croats, on the other hand, call their language Croatian and employ the Roman alphabet.
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Serbian.htm   (221 words)

  
 Serbian Unity Congress
Serbian Orthodox Church Delegation to visit Washington, Serbian Unity Congress, Jan 25, 2006
The ICTY acquittal of Albanian war-crime suspects does not serve justice and reconciliation in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian Unity Congress, Dec 06, 2005
Bulletin No. 272, Serbian Unity Congress, Dec 15, 2005
http://www.oea.serbian-church.net   (436 words)

  
 Serbian Cafe
Posting various articles on Serbian Cafe* and MSNBC's BBS's*.
Serbian Café - Veoma posecen chat-sajt, za koji je potreban browser koji podrzava Javu, ili IRC program...
Mesto gde se i nas glas cuje a tudji se psuje and a point of gathering for key issues concerning serbian diaspora and the fight against western imperialism.
http://www.coudycoffee.com/coffee/coffee-e/serbian-cafe.html   (378 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal Banned in Belgrade
Kosovo.com, on the other hand, offers views from the Serbian Democratic Movement of Kosovo and Metohija -- a religious group that's both pro-democracy and anti-secession -- and includes an entire book on the history of Kosovo.
Government-sponsored Albanian Terrorism and Kosovo.net also purport to offer "the truth about Kosovo" -- seemingly straight from Slobodan Milosevic's mouth.
A battle fought 600 years ago animates the Serbian lust for a province now populated by Albanians
http://www.salon.com/news/1999/03/25newsc.html   (542 words)

  
 Serbian Singing Federation
The sacrifices of many have collectively contributed to the birth, continued growth and prosperity of the SSF.
Our common endeavor to leave a heritage of songs to the future generations is our aim, and may those who take up where we leave off find the spiritual inspiration and musical happiness that we have with our member choirs.
For nearly three-quarters of a century the Serbian Singing Federation (SSF), through its member choirs, has been the Ambassador of Serbian song on the North American continent.
http://www.serbiansingingfederation.org   (243 words)

  
 Learn Serbian Online - Write or Speak in Serbian Language Exchange
Note: You don't have to fill all fields.
Learn Serbian online by practicing with a native speaker who is learning your language.
I am Predrag, i would like to learn more english...and to help others to learn serbian.
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Serbian.asp   (1086 words)

  
 Langbridge.com - Serbian Translation Services; English to Serbian Translators
Langbridge, Inc has been providing America with superb quality, fast turnaround Serbian translations since 1998.
Langbridge translators translate only into their native languages.
Need a text translated from English into Serbian or visa versa?
http://www.langbridge.com/translation_services/serbian_translation.htm   (121 words)

  
 Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The roots of the Serbian state reach back to the 7th century and the House of Vlastimirović.
The Serbian kingdom (centered around Duklja) was established in the 11th century.
The renewal of the medieval Serbian state in the Raška region was performed by Stefan Nemanja, the Serbian Grand Župan who lived in the 12th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia   (1933 words)

  
 Bosnian, Croatian & Serbian Tutorial
The Serbian language is written with the Cyrillic alphabet, but Croatian and Bosnian are written with the Latin alphabet.
Bosnian is a mixture of Croatian and Serbian with some Muslim influence.
For phrases that have two words separated by the /, the first word is informal and the second word is formal.
http://www.ielanguages.com/croatian.html   (1110 words)

  
 Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Ukrainian
After the Turkish conquest of Serbia and Bosnia, Islam spread to parts of Bosnia and the Arabic script was sometimes used.
Other languages written with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/serbo-croat.htm   (440 words)

  
 Serbian
Most speakers are Muslims who live in or are refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats, Montenegrins, and Serbs.
This is the national language of Serbia and is spoken in wide distribution throughout the world.
Total number of speakers is in excess of 20,000,000.
http://www.flw.com/languages/serbian.htm   (84 words)

  
 The July (1914) Crisis: Serbia
The Serbian Government at once expressed their readiness to hand over to justice any of their subjects who might be proved to have played a part in the Sarajevo outrage.
The Serbian Government consider that their vital interests require that peace and tranquillity in the Balkans should be firmly and lastingly established.
Actuated by the desire that good neighborly relations may be firmly established and maintained, we beg the friendly Governments to take note of these declarations and to act in a conciliatory sense should occasion or necessity arise.
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob110.html   (672 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Serbian
Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c.
The Oral Tradition - Article by Nada Milosevic-Djordjevic, a chapter from a book on the history of Serbian culture.
Medieval Literature in Serbia - Informative article by Radmila Milenkovic, taken from a book on history of Serbian culture.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Serbian   (157 words)

  
 The Observer International How video that put Serbia in dock was brought to light
Pressure is now mounting on them to arrest at least Mladic, who is believed to be in Serbia.
Immediately afterwards she gave it to Serbian TV.
The tape is also the 'smoking gun', for it is the final, incontrovertible proof of Serbia's part in the Srebrenica massacres in which more than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1499516,00.html?gusrc=rss   (1494 words)

  
 Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian at the University of Kansas
Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian at the University of Kansas
Though Croatian,Bosnian, and Serbian have all become official languages of their newly independent states, they remain completely understandable among each other.
KU is the only place in the U.S. between the West Coast and the Mississippi River where one can study Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian from the beginning to the advanced level.
http://www.ku.edu/~croatian   (511 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Front page
Serbian Prime Minister was among the attendees at the assembly in Guca
President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly Lord Russell-Johnston said that he was encouraged with the meeting he had with Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, expressing his assurance that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would soon be ready to enter the Council of Europe
Czech President Václav Havel and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic issued a joint condemnation of terrorism in all its forms during their meeting in Prague on Friday, and the Yugoslav visitor requested that any policy which encourages terrorism be condemned as well, expressing the readiness of Serbia to join in the fight against this evil
http://www.serbia-info.com   (1809 words)

  
 Serbian
1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day
1903 Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/s/serbian.html   (204 words)

  
 MOVEMENT OF SERBIAN CHETNIKS RAVNE GORE
Movement of Serbian Chetniks Ravne Gore was founded fifty years ago to serve as a guardian of the Ravna Gora ideals forged in the struggle for the survival of Serbian people during World War II.
Death of General Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovic, hero of Ravna Gora, marks the end of a dramatic and heroic period in the history of the Serbian people begun at the dawn of the 19th century by the leader of the First Serbian Uprising, Karadjordje Petrovic.
We also hope the current activities of the movement might be of some interest to you.
http://www.ravnagorachetniks.org/index_e.asp   (253 words)

  
 Serbian Byzantine Choir Moisey Petrovich
This event brought about a renaissance of church singing among Serbs.
Inclining towards the everlasting fountain of Athonite tradition, the choir who bear the name of the restorer of Serbian Byzantine psalmody, together are reviving the work of the Belgrade chanting school.
At 1999 he has been given the status of a free artist
http://moiseypetrovich.freeservers.com/weben.html   (397 words)

  
 BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Country profile: Serbia and Montenegro
The federation lasted for over 10 years after his death in 1980 but under Serbian nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic it fell apart in bloodshed through the 1990s.
The UN took over administration of the region after Serbian forces had been driven out.
Former pro-Milosevic outlets rushed to denounce the past, but in the longer run those which had defended their independence under the regime continued to report more comprehensively than media which merely switched sides.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1039269.stm   (1327 words)

  
 CNN - Serbian TV knocked off the air in intense attack - April 22, 1999
Sadler said there were casualties in the attack.
Yugoslav officials told CNN there were people inside the building when it was hit.
CNN Correspondent Brent Sadler, reporting from the Yugoslav capital, described the airstrikes as one of the most intense attacks since Operation Allied Force began and called it "a scene of complete destruction."
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/22/kosovo.04   (1381 words)

  
 ECTACO - Serbian electronic dictionary, Serbian translation software, Serbian dictionary software
So you will be communicating with ease in a matter of seconds!
http://www.ectaco.com/Serbian-items   (925 words)

  
 Serbian-English Dictionary - Internet Cruiser
Enter the word or phrase in Serbian language:
http://www.krstarica.com/dictionary   (51 words)

  
 Serbian electronic dictionary. Dictionaries for more than 25 languages.
Hold a world of translation in your hands!
If you need to communicate in Serbian or Croatian regularly, and want to read, write, or translate — this dictionary is for you.
They can be used as substitutes for multi-volume book dictionaries, as personal teachers of foreign languages, or as your interpreter abroad.
http://dictionaries.ectaco.com/serbian.html   (601 words)

  
 Serbian Epic Poetry : Introduction
During the battles of World War I and the Balkan Wars which preceded it, Serb patriots invented new poems styled after the old ones, and I don’t doubt that the same thing is happening even today.
Many have heard something about the earlier battle of Kosovo in 1389 in which (we are told) the “Serbian nation” was defeated by “the Turks”.
With Kosovo being so much in the news, many people are scrambling to learn something about the history of the region.
http://home.earthlink.net/~markdlew/SerbEpic   (655 words)

  
 Voyager - Spacecraft - Golden Record - Greetings From Earth - Serbian
Click Here to hear the greeting in Serbian.
This page was last updated January 14, 2003
The message translated to English is "We wish you everything good from our planet".
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/serbian.html   (42 words)

  
 Save Displaced Serbs
Every quarter since 1994, we have distributed your help to up to 1500 Serbian children who lost one or both parents during the war.
We have been supported and endorsed by many Serbian organizations, including Serbian Unity Congress, numerous chapters of "Circle of Serbian Sisters",
Most of these children receive no other assistance, and your contribution does make a difference.
http://www.serbiankids.com   (237 words)

  
 InterType for Palm OS /Serbian/
Without attempting to completely turn the device to Serbian, InterType addresses the very need to be able to read and write other languages in every application.
Localization is pretty much essential for anyone whose native language is not among the ones built in the original device configuration.
As of version 5.2 of Palm OS, the American and European Palm OS devices are using a single-byte code page, meaning they can only display and distinguish among 256 unique system characters.
http://www.beiks.com/palmzonebg/ShowTitle.asp?TitleID=567   (1581 words)

  
 Srebrenica
While pretending to be concerned about peace and human rights it was the Western powers who organized and supported Nazi and Islam fundamentalist forces in their act of destruction.
We, Serbian-American editors of Srpska Mreza insist on strengthening History-long good relationship between Serbian and Jewish people.
Please read our articles on common suffering of the Serbian and Jewish people.
http://www.srpska-mreza.com   (358 words)

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