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[Project Rastko] THE HISTORY OF SERBIAN CULTURE - The oral tradition: Nada Milošević-Đorđević (7286 words) |
 | With the demise of the Serbian medieval state, the historical traditions and epic poetry became the only integrating factor for the Serbian people, the most important elements of the communication system in the culture, and a means of spiritual survival and resistance to assimilation. |
| They are a memorial to the Serbian warriors, but the epics also present their convincing psychological portraits, beginning with Karađorđe and including one of the most noble characters in Serbian history and in Serbian epics - Prince Ivo of Semberija, who bought back slaves from the Turks, and died in poverty because of it. |
| The Serbian version of the departure into the world of adventure in the familiar international story type about an animal which flies from its cruel master, joined by other tortured creatures, is a story of animals taken by the haiduks as the only possible form of protection from evil. |
| Kosovo Battle (6170 words) |
| Serbian governments were involved in underground revolutionary activities aiming toward the liberation and unification of Serbs then under Habsburg and Ottoman rule. |
| With the consolidation of the Serbian international position and the 1878 recognized independence, the situation improved, although the constant threat of Ottoman reactions was present until the 20th century. |
| Among the Serbian and Montenegrin war aims in the 1912 war, the priority was to reconquer and liberate Kosovo. |
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