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Vladimir Ćorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ћоровић; 27 October 1885 – 12 April 1941) was a Serb historian, university professor, author, and academic. Ćorović served two terms as the Rector of the University of Belgrade and twice as the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Rastko joined Russian monks and traveled to Mount Athos where he took monastic vows and spent several years. In 1195, his father joined him, and together they founded the Chilandar, as the base of Serbian religion. [6] Rastko's father died in Hilandar on 13 February 1199; he was later canonised, as Saint Simeon. [6]
Jan. 2—An 87-year-old man has been charged a week after allegedly shooting and killing his adult stepson and choking his wife at their home in Northeast Albuquerque. William Pierce Howell was ...
The Battle of Kruševac was fought on October 2, 1454 between the forces of the Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. [3]In 1454 the Ottomans launched a major invasion against Serbia, at the helm of which was the Sultan himself, Mehmed the Conqueror.
Vladimir Ćorović noted that, compared with Dušan, who had also left a considerably extended state, Tvrtko was not an overly ambitious conqueror as much as he was an able statesman. Tvrtko, he wrote, used force when necessary but otherwise took care to appear to Serbians as the legitimate heir rather than as a foreign subjugator and to the ...
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
Svetozar Ćorović (29 May 1875 – 17 April 1919) was a Serbian novelist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] In his books, he often wrote of life in Herzegovina and, more specifically, the city of Mostar. [2] His brother was Vladimir Ćorović, a distinguished Serbian historian who was killed in 1941 during World War II in Greece.
In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stood before lawmakers and experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and proclaimed, “Today, Iraq has become a peaceful, democratic country that relies on its democratic institutions.”