United States or Belarus ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I remarked to the president, that if the father had more avarice than decency, he might go to Europe, and return with his weight in gold. Rich Soil. Mysterious Waters. Treaty of Passarovitz. The Castle of Semendria Relics of the Antique. The Brankovitch Family. Pancsova. Morrison's Pills.
A Memoir of Kara Georg. The Turkish conquest was followed by the gradual dispersion or disappearance of the native nobility of Servia, the last of whom, the Brankovitch, lived as despots in the castle of Semendria, up to the beginning of the eighteenth century; so that at this moment scarcely a single representative of the old stock is to be found.
Here was no fragile grace, as in the other figure; a few simple lines bespoke the careless hardihood of antique art. The last of these despots of Servia was George Brankovitch, the historian, who passed over to Austria, was raised to the dignity of a count; and after being kept many years as a state prisoner, suspected of secret correspondence with the Turks, died at Eger, in Bohemia, in 1711.
But the Orthodox Serbs, led by their Despot George Brankovitch, whose ancestor had deserted to the Turks at Kosovo, hated Catholicism more than Islam, and sided with the Turk against Hunyadi. The end soon came. The last King of Bosnia, Stefan Tomashovitch, a Catholic, asked help of the Pope, and endeavoured to raise troops among the Catholics of Dalmatia and Croatia.
The legitimate Brankovitch line is now extinct. Leaving the fortress, we returned to the Natchalnik's house. I was struck with the size, beauty, and flavour of the grapes here; I have nowhere tasted such delicious fruit of this description. "Groja Smederevsko" are celebrated through all Servia, and ought to make excellent wine.
Word Of The Day