Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
See also: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:
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: |
|
|
[back] CHUPATTY |
[next] CHUQUISACA |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.