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CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya)

CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya) , the See also:

capital of the Morava See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

SERVIA

Servia, on the railway from See also:

BELGRADE (Servian, Biograd or Beograd, i.e. " White Castle")

Belgrade to See also:

NISH (also written NISCx and Nis)

Nish, and on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Morava, which is navigable up to this point by small sailing-vessels. Pop. (1900) about 6000. Some of the finest Servian See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle are bred in the neighbouring lowlands, and the See also:

TOWN

town has a consider-able See also:

trade in plums and other See also:

FARM

farm-produce. A See also:

LIGHT

light railway, leading to several important collieries, runs for 13 M. through the See also:

BEECH

beech-forests and mountains on the See also:

east. See also:

CLOTH

Cloth is See also:

WOVEN

woven at Parachin, 5 M. S.; and Yagodina, 8 m. W. by N., is an important See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market town. Among the foothills of the Golubinye Range, 7 M. E.N.E., is the 14th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Ravanitsa monastery, with a ruined fort and an old church—their walls and frescoes pitted by See also:

TURKISH

Turkish bullets. There is a See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend that here the Servian See also:

TSAR, or CZAR

tsar See also:

LAZAR

Lazar (1374–1389) was visited by an See also:

ANGEL

angel, who bade him choose between an earthly and a heavenly See also:

CROWN

crown. Inaccordance with his choice, Lazar See also:

fell fighting at See also:

KOSSOVO

Kossovo, and was buried at Ravanitsa; his botly being afterwards transferred, through fear of the See also:

TURKS

Turks, to another Ravanitsa, in eastern Slavonia.

His crucifix is treasured among the monastic archives, which also contain a See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter signed by See also:

Peter the See also:

GREAT

Great of See also:

Russia (1672-1725). Manasia (Manasiya), the still more celebrated See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of See also:

Stephen, the son and successor of Lazar, lies 12 M. N. of Ravanitsa. Built in a cleft among the hills which See also:

LINE

line the See also:

RIVER

river Resava, an affluent of the Morava, this monastery is enclosed in a fortress, whose square towers, and See also:

CURTAIN

curtain without loopholes or battlements, remain largely intact. Within the curtain stand the monastic buildings, a large See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden and a cruciform See also:

CHAPEL

chapel, with many curious old See also:

stone carvings, See also:

HALF

half hidden beneath whitewash. Numerous gifts from the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

court, such as gospels lettered in See also:

gold and See also:

SILVER

silver See also:

RELIEF

relief, or jewelled crucifixes, are preserved on the spot; but the valuable library was removed, in the 15th century, to See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

ATHOS (Gr. "Aytov "Opos; Turk. Aineros; Ital. Monte Santo)

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