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Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː ɡrâd], "Old Town") is a fortress near the city of Užice, in central Serbia. Today in ruins, it is an example of typical medieval Serbian architecture. Historians believe it was built in the second half of the 14th century to control movement along nearby roads, and the ...
This is a list of fortifications in Serbia.The list includes remains (ruins) of military constructions; fortresses (tvrđave), castles (zamci), towers (kule), etc.There are over 30 preserved forts in Serbia, and more than hundreds of sites with remains of old fortifications.
Niš Fortress (Serbian: Нишка тврђава / Niška tvrđava) is a fortress in the city of Niš, Serbia. It is a complex and important cultural and historical monument. It rises on the right bank of the Nišava River, overlooking the area inhabited for longer than two millennia. [1]
[1] The walls of Starigrad are 262m above sea level. The approach and gateway into Starigrad was protected by a bastion (center) and a barbican (right). The fortress or Fortica was built during the Croatian–Ottoman wars as a primary defence against the Ottoman Empire. The precipitous fortification is sited on a 262 m (860 ft) ridge above the ...
Niš: Niš: Nišava District: 1882–1886 Preserved Palace, administrative building, academic library and chamber of commerce: National Assembly House: Belgrade: Stari Grad: Belgrade: 1907–1936 Preserved Palace and Parliament: Niš City Hall: Niš: Niš: Nišava District: 1924–1925 Preserved Palace and town hall: Novi Dvor (New Palace ...
The City Museum of Novi Sad (Serbian: Музеј града Новог Сада, Muzej grada Novog Sada; Hungarian: Újvidéki Városi Múzeum; Slovak: Múzeum mesta Nový Sad; Rusyn: Музей града Новог Сада) founded in 1954, is a complex city museum focusing on Novi Sad's, capital of the province of Vojvodina in Serbia, development from its origins to the modern era. [1]
The first mention of the town was on 1 September 1355, in the charter "in castro nosto Visoka vocatum" written by Tvrtko I of Bosnia while he was a young ban. [1] The town was presumably abandoned before 1503, as it is not mentioned in the Turkish-Hungarian treaty from the mentioned year. [1] In 1626, Đorđić mentioned Visoki among abandoned ...
However most of its area (east of the line Nis-Pristina) lies outside the Serbian-speakers region. Old Serbia ( Serbian : Стара Србија , romanized : Stara Srbija ) is a Serbian historiographical term [ 1 ] that is used to describe the territory that according to the dominant school of Serbian historiography in the late 19th century ...