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MARKO KRALYEVICH

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 736 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MARKO KRALYEVICH , Servian hero, was a son of the Servian king or prince, Vukashin (d. 1371). Chagrined at not himself becoming king after his father's death, he headed a revolt against the new ruler of the Servians. Later he passed into the service of the
sultan
  of Turkey, and was killed in
battle
  about 1394. Marko, however, is more celebrated in legend than in history. He is regarded as the personification of the Servian race, and stories of strength and wonder have gathered round his name. He is supposed to have lived for 300 years, to have ridden a
horse
  15o years old, and to have used his enormous
physical
  strength against oppressors, especially against the Turks. He is a
great
  figure in Servian poetry, and his deeds are also told in the epic poems of the Rumanians and the Bulgarians. One tradition relates how he retired from the world owing to the advent of firearms, which, he held, made strength and valour of no
account
  in
battle
 . Goethe regards Marko as the counter-
part
  of Hercules and of the Persian Rustem.
The Servian poems about him were published in 1878; a
German
 
translation
  by Gruber (Marko, der Konigssohn) appeared at Vienna in 1883.


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