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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KRALYEVO (sometimes written KRALJEVO or KRALIEVO) , a See also:city of See also:Servia, and See also:capital of a See also:department bearing the same name. Kralyevo is built beside the See also:river Ibar, 4 M. W. of its confluence with the Servian Morava; and in the midst of an upland valley, between the Kotlenik Mountains, on the See also:north, and the Stolovi Mountains, on the See also:south. Formerly known as Karanovats, Kralyevo received its See also:present name, signifying " the See also:King's See also:Town," from King See also:Milan (1868-1889), who also made it a bishopric, instead of Chachak, 22 M. W. by N. Kralyevo is a See also:garrison town, with a prefecture, See also:court of first instance, and an agricultural school. But by far its most interesting feature is the See also:Coronation See also:church belonging to Jicha monastery. Here six or seven See also:kings are said to have been crowned. The church is See also:Byzantine in See also:style, and has been partially restored; but the See also:main See also:tower See also:dates from the See also:year 1210, when it was founded by St Sava, the See also:patron See also:saint of Servia. Pop. (1900), about 3600. The famous monastery of Studenitsa, 24 in.

S. by W. of Kralyevo, stands high up among the south-western mountains, overlooking the Studenitsa, a tributary of the Ibar. It consists of a See also:

group of old-fashioned See also:timber and See also:plaster buildings, a tall See also:belfry, and a diminutive church of See also:white See also:marble, founded in 1190 by King See also:Stephen Nemanya, who himself turned See also:monk and was canonized as St See also:Simeon. The carvings See also:round the north, south and See also:west doors have been partially defaced by the See also:Turks. The inner walls are decorated with Byzantine frescoes, among which only a See also:painting of the Last Supper, and the portraits of five See also:saints, remain unrestored. The See also:dome and See also:narthex are See also:modern additions. Besides the See also:silver See also:shrine of St Simeon, many See also:gold and silver ornaments, church vessels and old See also:manuscripts, there are a set of See also:vestments and a reliquary, believed by the monks to have been the See also:property of St Sava.

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