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UZHITSE (also written Uzice and Ushitsa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UZHITSE (also written Uzice and Ushitsa)  , the See also:capital of the See also:Uzhitse See also:department of See also:Servia . As implied by its name, which may be translated " the narrow places," Uzhitse is built in a narrow and lonely glen amongst the See also:south-western moun- t Perhaps a See also:mistake or an See also:abbreviation for See also:Aram.tains, 1385 ft. above the See also:sea . The surrounding heights, though rugged and barren, produce some of the finest Servian See also:tobacco . See also:Weaving is taught in the girls' school, and fairs are held for the See also:sale of See also:farm produce; but the See also:absence of a railway and the badness of the roads retard See also:commerce . Uzhitse possesses a See also:court of first instance and a prefecture . Despite the prevailing poverty, it has also a real-school with See also:good buildings, founded in 1865, and attended by about 30o pupils in 1900 . The houses in Uzhitse are quite unlike those of more prosperous Servian towns, being tall, narrow structures of See also:timber, frequently blackened by the See also:damp . Pop . (1900) about 7000 . See also:Early in the 13th See also:century Uzhitse was the seat of St Sava, the first See also:archbishop,' and the See also:patron See also:saint of Servia . The archbishopric was soon removed to See also:Ipek, in Old Servia; but after the See also:Turkish See also:garrison had been expelled in 1862 the See also:city became once more the See also:head of a See also:diocese . At Arilye, 13 M .

E.S.E., there is a 13th-century See also:

church, dedicated to St Aril, who, according to tradition, was martyred in the 9th century by unconverted Serbs . On the Bosnian frontier, 15 M . W. by N., are the See also:mineral springs of Bayina Bashta (i.e . " the See also:Garden See also:Bath "), with Racha monastery See also:close by; and in the neighbourhood is Dobrinye, the See also:home of the Obrenovich See also:family, with a church built by Milosh Obrenovich, called " the Liberator of Servia " (1818-1839) .

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