Stari Ras
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Ras, known in modern Serbian historiography as Stari Ras, was a medieval fortress complex located in the vicinity of former marketplace of Staro Trgovište, some 10–11 kilometers west of modern-day cit
Overview of Stari Ras (Gradina-Pazarište)
The cave monastery of Archangel Michael, active in the 12th–13th century.
View from Gradina-Pazarište to the northeast.
Remains of Trgovište.
Serbia
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Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it is bordered by Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgari
Stari Ras
…in the vicinity of former marketplace of Staro Trgovište, some 10–11 kilometers (6.2–6.8 mi) west of modern-day city of Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia. Old Ras was part of the Eastern Roman Empire and was then a frontier fortress that switched hands between the First Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine…
Vinča culture figurine, 4000–4500 BC
Remnants of the Felix Romuliana Imperial Palace, 298 AD, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; Some historians believe as many as 18 Roman emperors were born in modern-day Serbia
The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 is particularly important to Serbian history, tradition and national identity
Migration of the Serbs, by Paja Jovanović (c. 1896), depicting the Great Migration of 1690, led by the patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević