2-Some facts about Kosovo and Metohija! [for people who don't know real history]

Day 1,422, 10:48 • Published in Serbia Switzerland • by aLesandar Srbljanski
This is the second part of this article, before you continue with reading plese please review this video about Albanians...

RECANE, CHURCH OF ST. DJORDJE

DESTROYED

In the village of Recane, east of Suva Reka, there is a small church dedicated to St. Djordje, the endowment of an unknown Serbian duke who was buried there on 23 December 1370. The tomb with the carved, partially damaged, inscription points to the period of the construction and painting of temple as the seventh decade of the 14th century. The building has unusually harmonious proportions and the foundation in the shape of the shortened cross with the dome on pilasters. It was built with stone; only the dome is built with alternate layers of limestone and brick. Modest ceramoplastic decoration is represented primarily on the southern facade. The interesting iconographic contents of the Recane paintings includes, besides the usual subjects, the cycle dedicated to the patron of the temple numbering about ten compositions based on the Slav interpretation of the legend about St. Djordje. The stylistic characteristics of these paintings, severely damaged by fire and the temple’s partial falling in mid-19th century, point to local painters, members of a local workshop, most probably from Prizren. Inspired by the achievements from the first half of the 14th century, they show some archaic characteristics but, at the same time, certain features characteristic for the contemporary trends and for the art of that time. The first protection works were carried out already in 1926, while the complete conservation works on the architecture and paintings were carried out in the 1956-1960 period.

The church of St. George was destroyed by explosive in June 1999 after the end of Kosovo war by Albanian extremists. The ruins of the church have since then mostly been removed from the location where this beautiful example of 14th century architecture once stood.


Church of St. George in Recane


GAZIMESTAN

The historical area of the Kosovo Battle which took place in 1389, i.e. the central place of clash between the Serbian and Turkish armies, is a unique whole consisting of the monument to the Kosovo heroes in the shape of medieval tower built in 1953 and designed by Aleksandar Deroko, and Gazimestan turbeh (Barjaktar's (flag bearer) turbeh). The area of the Gazimestan, Plandiste, Tresevina and Lazarevo memorial complex is bordering, on the north, with the Baksija area; on the north-east with the Brnjica river, on the east with the town of Donja Brnjica and the Ravniste area; on the south with the Orlovic area and town; and on the west with the Siroko Polje and Mazgit areas with the town of Gornji Mazgit. The road to Pristina on the western side is partially bordering with and partially passing through the area. The central place is the tower, 25 m high, whose interior is inscribed by the verses of the Kosovo Cycle. There is a platform on the top of the tower overlooking the area of the Kosovo Battle. On the occasion of the celebration of the sixth century from the Kosovo Battle, art applications in cast bronze symbolizing the jubilee years were made around the tower. A white monolith marble column with the text by Despot Stefan Lazarevic was erected in the vicinity of the monument.


NOVO BRDO FORT


The medieval town of Novo Brdo is located on the top of Mala Planina (Small Mountain), between Prilepnica and Kriva Reka, north of Gnjilane. The fortified town and settlement date back to the beginning of the 14th century. From mid-14th century, Novo Brdo became the biggest mining place in Serbia and the most important urban centre. Silver exploited in the Novo Brdo mines had the ingredients of gold. Besides the Serbian population, people from Dubrovnik, Saxons, Greeks and Albanians also lived in the town. At the time of Emperor Stefan Dusan, there was a mint in the town and the coins with the name of the town started to be minted in 1349. The Turks conquered the town in mid-1455 and its sudden decay began. It was completely deserted at the beginning of the 17th century. The fort is composed of the dominant Upper Town of polygonal shape with six massive rectangular towers. It was built with trimmed broken stone in almost regular layers. The rampart of the Lower Town with two towers is stretching towards west following the configuration of the terrain. The urban settlement with the main town church of St. Nikola was within the Lower Town and on a wider space east of the fort. 900 graves and tombs, built or carved in the rock, were discovered in the church and its yard. The remains of a church built by Saxons and the people from Dubrovnik, named Saska (Saxon) Church, were discovered south of the town. Archeological excavations and parallel conservation works in the complex of the fortified town, settlement and the church at Novo Brdo were carried out in the 1952-1959 period, in 1962 and 1969.


CHURCH OF THE HOLY VIRGIN IN LIPLJAN


The church of Virgin's Vavedenje was probably built in the second or third decade of the 14th century. It is an one-nave edifice covered with semi-oval dome, with the apse three-sided from outside and semi-circular inside. It is built in alternation of stone and brick and the facades are decorated with shallow sculpted ornaments and blind arcades. The built iconostasis was subsequently erected at the time of the renewal of church in the 16th century. Another partition dividing the interior of the church to the altar area, naos and priprata was also built then in the western part of the temple, while the ruined upper parts of the church were restored. The original paintings, partially preserved, were also damaged in a fire. The founder of paintings, an unknown landowner, is painted on the northern wall of naos. The paintings of high artistic value date back to mid-16th century. After the restoration of church in the 16th century, new frescoes were painted in the church and this process lasted, with interruptions, until 1621. The compositions with Eucharist symbols in the altar were renewed, individual saints' figures and compositions from the cycles of Great Holidays and Christ's miracles were painted in higher zones of iconostasis and naos, while the Last Judgment, individual saints and the healing of the sight of Stefan Decanski were illustrated in priprata. Conservation works on architecture and wall paintings were carried out in the 1955-1958 period.


This is just one of the parts of our history in Kosovo and Metohija..



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Косово и Метохија је Србија!
Kosovo and Metohija is Serbia!
Косово и Метохия Cербия!
Косово и Метохија е Србија
Koszovó és Metohija Szerbia!
Kosovo und Metohija ist Serbien!
Kosovo-Metohija est la Serbie!
Kosovo y Metohija es Serbia!
Κόσοβο και τα Μετόχια είναι Σερβία!
Kosowo i Metochia jest Serbia!
Kosovo e Metohija é Sérvia!
科索沃和梅托希亞是塞爾維亞!
Kosovo dan Metohija adalah Serbia!