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CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia;...

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya)  , the See also:capital of the Morava See also:department of See also:Servia, on the railway from See also:Belgrade to See also:Nish, and on the right See also:bank of the Morava, which is navigable up to this point by small sailing-vessels . Pop . (1900) about 6000 . Some of the finest Servian See also:cattle are bred in the neighbouring lowlands, and the See also:town has a consider-able See also:trade in plums and other See also:farm-produce . A See also:light railway, leading to several important collieries, runs for 13 M. through the See also:beech-forests and mountains on the See also:east . See also:Cloth is See also:woven at Parachin, 5 M . S.; and Yagodina, 8 m . W. by N., is an important See also:market town . Among the foothills of the Golubinye Range, 7 M . E.N.E., is the 14th-See also:century Ravanitsa monastery, with a ruined fort and an old See also:church—their walls and frescoes pitted by See also:Turkish bullets . There is a See also:legend that here the Servian See also:tsar See also:Lazar (1374–1389) was visited by an See also:angel, who bade him choose between an earthly and a heavenly See also:crown . Inaccordance with his choice, Lazar See also:fell fighting at See also:Kossovo, and was buried at Ravanitsa; his botly being afterwards transferred, through fear of the See also:Turks, to another Ravanitsa, in eastern Slavonia .

His crucifix is treasured among the monastic archives, which also contain a See also:

charter signed by See also:Peter the See also:Great of See also:Russia (1672-1725) . Manasia (Manasiya), the still more celebrated See also:foundation of See also:Stephen, the son and successor of Lazar, lies 12 M . N. of Ravanitsa . Built in a cleft among the hills which See also:line the See also:river Resava, an affluent of the Morava, this monastery is enclosed in a fortress, whose square towers, and See also:curtain without loopholes or battlements, remain largely intact . Within the curtain stand the monastic buildings, a large See also:garden and a cruciform See also:chapel, with many curious old See also:stone carvings, See also:half hidden beneath whitewash . Numerous gifts from the See also:Russian See also:court, such as gospels lettered in See also:gold and See also:silver See also:relief, or jewelled crucifixes, are preserved on the spot; but the valuable library was removed, in the 15th century, to See also:Mount See also:Athos .

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