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KRUSHEVATS (or KRUSEVAC)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KRUSHEVATS (or KRUSEVAC) , a See also:town of See also:Servia, lying in a fertile region of hills and dales near the right See also:bank of the Servian Morava. Pop. (1900), about 1o,000. Krushevats is the See also:capital of a See also:department bearing the same name, and has an active See also:trade in See also:tobacco, See also:hemp, See also:flax, See also:grain and livestock, for the See also:sale of which it possesses about a dozen markets. It was in Krushevats that the last Servian See also:tsar, See also:Lazar, assembled his See also:army to See also:march against the See also:Turks, and lose his See also:empire, at Kosovo, in 1389. The site of his See also:palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the See also:tower of See also:Queen Militsa, whither, according to See also:legend, tidings of the defeat were brought her by crows from the battlefield. Within the enclosure stands a See also:church, dating from the reign of See also:Stephen Dushan (1336—1356), with beautiful See also:rose windows and with imperial peacocks, dragons and eagles sculptured on the walls. Several old See also:Turkish houses were See also:left at the beginning of the 20th See also:century, besides an See also:ancient Turkish See also:fountain and See also:bath.

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