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Knez Miloš Obrenović in typical Ottoman-influenced Serbian city costume of the first half of the 19th century, complete with a turban Serbian peasants and townsfolk, 1877. Serbian costume is also known for the variety of textures and embroidery. The jelek is a waistcoat made from wool or velvet while women's jackets are lined with fur.
Royal Serbian Army conscripts, 1901 Serbian partisans, 1941. The šajkača is believed to have originated in the Serbian region of Banat during the 18th century, when šajkaši (Serb river troops in the service of the Austrian Empire) guarded the Danube and Sava rivers against the Ottoman Empire and wore caps in the shape of an overturned chaika (Serbian: шајка) boat.
Therefore, the San Francisco Bay area can be rightly considered one of the first centers of Orthodox Christianity in the United States, as Serbs played a major role in its early development by forming the "Russian, Greek, Serbian Organization of San Francisco" in 1864. Most of the early members of this organization were Serbs.
Includes City Hall, Civic Auditorium, Old Public Library, Earl Warren Building, Old Federal Building, War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building and the Civic Center Powerhouse 157: San Francisco Fire Department Engine Co. Number 2: San Francisco Fire Department Engine Co. Number 2
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
the White Angel fresco, from the Monastery of Mileševa. The cultural heritage of Serbia is classified and categorized by the law. Primarily, it is divided into two main groups, first including tangible cultural heritage (such as works of art, historical monuments, archeological sites, architecturally prominent buildings, archival and museum artifacts, old and rare books, cultural landscapes ...
San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. University of California Press. Richards, Rand (2007). Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide. ISBN 978-1879367050. Ryan, Mary P. (1997). Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Old Serbian may refer to: someone or something related to the Old Serbia, a historical region; Old Serbian language, a general term for the pre-modern variants of Serbian language, including: the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavic language; the Slavo-Serbian language, an early modern variant of Serbian language