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1601 book about the history of the Slavic people
Il Regno de gli Slavi
The Kingdom of the Slavs (
Italian : Il Regno de gli Slavi ) is a book by
Mavro Orbini published in the Italian city of
Pesaro in 1601.
[1] The book provided a history of the
Slavic peoples .
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The historical context of the work is the
Long Turkish War and the loss of the position of the southern Slavs in the rule of the
Ottoman Empire after the hanging of
Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu (March 3, 1578) and the assassination of
Grand Vizier
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (October 11, 1579). The
Venetian Republic , through its protégés,
Validе Sultanas , succeeded in displacing the
Republic of Dubrovnik from its position in the Mediterranean trade by constructing a
port in Split .
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After
Peter the Great declared himself
Emperor , his first order was to translate into Russian and publish this book.[
citation needed ] The book played a huge role in the emergence of
pan-Slavism .[
citation needed ]
Further reading
"
Indetermi-Nation: Narrative identity and symbolic politics in early modern Illyrism " by Zrinka Blažević, in Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe] , Koninklijke Brill (2010)
Croatia: A Nation Formed in War by Marcus Tanner, Yale University Press (1997)
Entangled Histories Of The Balkans - Volume One ed. by Roumen Dontchev Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov, Koninklijke Brill (2013)
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods by Larry Wolff, Stanford University Press (2002)
Our Kingdom Come: The Counter-Reformation, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and the Liberation of the Balkan Slavs by Zdenko Zlatar, East European Monographs (1992)
References
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Orbini, Mauro (1601).
l Regno de gli Slaui hoggi corrottamente detti Schiauoni. Historia di don Mauro Orbini rauseo abbate melitense. Nella quale si vede l'origine quasi di tutti i popoli che furono della lingua slaua, con molte, & varie guerre, che fecero in Europa, Asia, & Africa . Pesaro: Apresso Girolamo Concordia. Retrieved 21 June 2021 – via Google Books.
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The Kingdom of the Slavs by Mauro Orbini, phototype edition
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"Rodriga, Daniel" . The concession for the renovation of the port of Split was won by the Portuguese
maran of the Venetian service, Daniel Rodriguez, who is one of the prototypes of
The Merchant of Venice .
See also