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CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 324 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CHUPRIYA (sometimes written Tiupriia; Croatian Cuprya) , the
capital
  of the Morava department of Servia, on the railway from Belgrade to
Nish
 , 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
 -forests and mountains on the
east
 . 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
  (13741389) was visited by an
angel
 , who bade him choose between an earthly and a heavenly crown. Inaccordance with his choice,
Lazar
  fell fighting at
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
  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
  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
  Athos.


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