MARKO KRALYEVICH  , Servian See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero, was a son of the Servian See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king or See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince, Vukashin (d . 1371) . Chagrined at not himself becoming king after his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• DEATH

death, he headed a revolt against the new ruler of the Servians . Later he passed into the service of the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan of See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey, and was killed in See also:

• BATTLE

battle about 1394 . Marko, however, is more celebrated in See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend than in See also:

• HISTORY

history . He is regarded as the personification of the Servian See also:

• RACE

race, and stories of strength and wonder have gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round his name . He is supposed to have lived for 300 years, to have ridden a See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse 15o years old, and to have used his enormous See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical strength against oppressors, especially against the See also:

• TURKS

Turks . He is a See also:

• GREAT

great figure in Servian See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and his deeds are also told in the epic poems of the Rumanians and the Bulgarians . One tradition relates how he retired from the See also:

• WORLD

world owing to the See also:

• ADVENT (Lat. Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Saviour ")

advent of firearms, which, he held, made strength and valour of no See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in battle . See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe regards Marko as the See also:

• COUNTER

counter-See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• HERCULES
• HERCULES (0. Lat. Hercoles, Hercles)

Hercules and of the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian Rustem . The Servian poems about him were published in 1878; a See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by See also:

• GRUBER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1774-1851)

Gruber (Marko, der Konigssohn) appeared at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna in 1883 .