CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya)

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CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya) , the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the Morava department of Servia, on the railway from Belgrade to

Nish

NISH (also written NISCx and Nis)

, and on the right bank of the Morava, which is navigable up to this point by small sailing-vessels. Pop. (1900) about 6000. Some of the finest Servian cattle are bred in the neighbouring lowlands, and the town has a consider-able trade in plums and other farm-produce. A light railway, leading to several important collieries, runs for 13 M. through the

beech

BEECH

-forests and mountains on the

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

. Cloth is woven at Parachin, 5 M. S.; and Yagodina, 8 m. W. by N., is an important market town. Among the foothills of the Golubinye Range, 7 M. E.N.E., is the 14th-century Ravanitsa monastery, with a ruined fort and an old churchtheir walls and frescoes pitted by Turkish bullets. There is a legend that here the Servian tsar

Lazar

LAZAR

(13741389) was visited by an

angel

ANGEL

, who bade him choose between an earthly and a heavenly crown. Inaccordance with his choice,

Lazar

LAZAR

fell fighting at

Kossovo

KOSSOVO

, and was buried at Ravanitsa; his botly being afterwards transferred, through fear of the Turks, to another Ravanitsa, in eastern Slavonia. His crucifix is treasured among the monastic archives, which also contain a charter signed by Peter the

Great

GREAT

of Russia (1672-1725). Manasia (Manasiya), the still more celebrated foundation of Stephen, the son and successor of Lazar, lies 12 M. N. of Ravanitsa. Built in a cleft among the hills which line the river Resava, an affluent of the Morava, this monastery is enclosed in a fortress, whose square towers, and curtain without loopholes or battlements, remain largely intact. Within the curtain stand the monastic buildings, a large

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

and a cruciform chapel, with many curious old stone carvings, half hidden beneath whitewash. Numerous gifts from the Russian court, such as gospels lettered in gold and silver relief, or jewelled crucifixes, are preserved on the spot; but the valuable library was removed, in the 15th century, to

Mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Athos.

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