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IPEK (Slay. Petch, Lat. Pescium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IPEK (Slay. Petch, See also:Lat. Pescium)  , a See also:town of See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Kossovo and sanjak of Novibazar, 73 M . E.N.E. of See also:Scutari, near the eastern See also:base of the Mokra Planina, the Montenegrin frontier, and the See also:head-See also:waters of the Ibar and See also:White Drin . Pop . (19o5), about 15,000, principally . Albanians and Serbs . A small stream bearing, like several others in the See also:Balkan See also:peninsula, the name of Bistritza (the See also:bright or clear), flows through the town . On one of the neighbouring heights is situated the monastery of See also:Ipek, founded by See also:Archbishop See also:Arsenius in the r3th See also:century, and famous as the seat until 1690 of the patriarchs of the Servian See also:church . The buildings are surrounded by thick walls, and comprise a large central church (Our See also:Lady's), and two See also:side chapels (the Martyrs' and St See also:Demetrius'), each surmounted by a leaden See also:cupola, The church See also:dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . Among its numerous See also:objects of See also:interest are the white See also:marble tombs of Arsenius and other chiefs of the Servian church, and the white marble See also:throne on which the patriarchs were crowned . Ipek has been incorrectly identified by some writers with Doclea or Dioclea (Dukle in See also:Montenegro), the birthplace of See also:Diocletian, and the See also:capital of a small principality which was overthrown by the Bulgarians in the 11th century . See See also:Barth, Reise durch das Innere der europdischen Turkei (See also:Berlin, 1864) ; A . P .

Irby and G . M . M . See also:

Mackenzie, Travels in the See also:Slavonic Provinces of Turkey (1877); M . E . See also:Durham, Through the Lands of the Serb (See also:London, 1904) .

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