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 VINTAGE COPPER REPOUSSE
3d / three dimensional PICTURE
FOLK ART DEPICTS
AN ANCEINT CLOCK TOWER
AN ORTHODOX CROSS AT THE PEAK
ONE MAN PLAYS A HORN
THE OTHER BEATS A DRUM
DAVUL / ZURNA
SYRILLIC / GREEK LETTERING
MEASURES ABOUT 7.5" X 19"
SIGNED IN LOWER RIGHT CORNER
ARTIST UNDETERMINED
SERBIA GAZIMESTAN BATTLE KOSOVO
OR CHANIA, CRETE
OR
ST. JOHN'S VALETTA MALTA
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Gazimestan (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????????, Serbian pronunciation: [?azim?sta?n], Albanian: Gazimestani) is the name of a memorial site and monument commemorating the Battle of Kosovo (1389), situated about 6-7 kilometres southeast of the actual battlefield, known as the Kosovo field. The name is a portmanteau derived from Arabic ghazi, meaning "hero" or "champion", and Serbian word mesto, meaning "place". Gazimestan is reached from the Pristina–Mitrovica highway, on a 50-metre hill above the plain, ca. 5 km north-west from Pristina. Every year, on Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day), 28 June, a commemoration is held by the monument, which in later years is also covered by an image of Prince Lazar, who led the Serbian army at the battle.

History
The site was the place where Despot Stefan Lazarevi? erected a marble pillar with an inscription commemorating the battle. That monument disappeared during the Ottoman period. A monumental building in the form of a temple (Vidovdanski hram, "Vidovdan temple") designed by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrovi? was planned but never realized. In 1924 a small monument honouring the Serbian heroes at the battle (Kosovski junaci, "Kosovo heroes") was erected; it was an obelisk with a cross on top. It had a Cyrillic inscription: "To the fallen heroes for the honorable cross, freedom, and rights of their people – 1389 1912 – [by] thankful descendants, citizens and soldiers of the city of Priština". During World War II, just after the Yugoslav capitulation, the monument was mined by Albanian fascist troops and completely destroyed. In the years prior to the war, a larger monument had been planned and a cornerstone placed near where the present monument is, but the threat of war put it on hold.

Until the end of World War I and the creation of Yugoslavia (1918) there were no conditions or opportunities for large masses to gather at the site. More notable celebrations of Vidovdan (St. Vitus' day) at Gazimestan are noticed only since 1919, in 1924 when the obelisk was erected, and finally before the start of the war, five and a half centuries after the battle. In this period an estimated 20,000–100,000 people gathered on Vidovdan at Gazimestan. Participants included not only native Kosovo Serbs, but also others from distant regions, such as the Bay of Kotor, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Old Montenegro, and Skoplje, Zagreb, Belgrade and some places in Vojvodina. The celebration programme included, from 9 or 10 o'clock, commemoration in liturgy at Gra?anica, Samodreža and Gazimestan, speeches, discourses, and artillery fire. In 1935 and 1939 there were also air show.

In 1989, on the 600th anniversary, Serbian president Slobodan Miloševi? held the famous Gazimestan speech at the site.

In 1997 the site was declared a cultural heritage of Serbia.

In 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War (1998–99) the monumental area was mined.

In 2007, a 14-day march from Belgrade to Gazimestan was organized by several patriotic organizations.

In 2009, the commemoration brought the biggest crowd since 1999, with several thousand people.

In 2010, the Kosovo Police was handed over the task of guarding the monument, which was criticised by the Serbian government. In 2014, President Tomislav Nikoli? held a speech at the monument.

Monument
The Gazimestan monument was designed by Aleksandar Deroko, in the shape of a medieval tower, and built in 1953 under the authority of SFR Yugoslavia.
:Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth
And of Serb blood and heritage
And comes not to the Battle of Kosovo,
May he never have the progeny his heart desires!
Neither son nor daughter
May nothing grow that his hand sows!
Neither dark wine nor white wheat
And let him be cursed from all ages to all ages!
— Inscription on the monument of the "Kosovo curse" attributed to Prince Lazar.
This version first appeared in the 1845 folk songs collection of Vuk Karadži?.
 

 

 


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