Vidovdan

St Vitus’s Day (Vidovdan, 28 June; the day of the Battle of Kosovo)

Видовдан (28 июня; церковный праздник, день Косовской битвы)

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• KȍsovoKosovo (a territory; in culture, the 1389 battle and its epic cycle)
• Kȍsovskī bȏjthe Battle of Kosovo (1389, the subject of an epic cycle)
• cȁr LázarTsar Lazar, Prince Lazar (killed at the Battle of Kosovo, epic hero)
• Mȉloš ÒbilićMiloš Obilić (the Kosovo epic hero said to have killed the sultan)
• Kȍsōvka dèvōjkathe Maiden of Kosovo (the epic song’s figure of mercy)
• Mȃjka Jȕgovīćāthe Mother of the Jugovići (the epic image of a mother’s grief)
• Mȃrko KràljevićPrince Marko, Marko Kraljević (the hero of Serbian epic song)
• hàjdūkan outlaw rebel (a hajduk of Ottoman times, a hero of folk epic)
• KaràđōrđeKarađorđe (Đorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising of…
• Pȑvī sȓpskī ùstanakthe First Serbian Uprising (1804, against Ottoman rule)

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