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MANNERS, TRADITIONS, SLOVAKIA FOLKLORE
The Slovak folk calendar is full of customs and rituals that go back to the ancient Slavic magic. Most of them have absorbed Christianity. Because we come from the same circle of Christian culture, most of Slovak customs …
Theater in Slovakia
The earliest Slavic performances in today's Slovakia, related to religious rituals, supposedly took place during the times of the Great Moravian Reich, survived in folk traditions and infiltrated into Christian rituals. Their prevalence is evidenced by the fact, that the synod of Esztergom in XII …
Music in Slovakia
W IX w. together with Christianity, the Byzantine and Latin liturgical chants penetrated the Slavic lands, the latter, in the form of chorales, they became popular mainly thanks to the Benedictine monasteries. The folk music of the Games was developing at the same time (local variety …
A MINILEXICON OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
But (should. „pan”) – superior, supervisor. Officer title in the Ottoman Empire, clerical and courtly, which both officers enjoyed, as well as governors, and even to the heads of the eunuchs and the court servants; after the proclamation of the republic, the title is purely honorific.
Now – …
Whirling dervishes
The great Turkish poet and mystic Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi was born in September 1207 r. in the city of Balkh (in northern Afghanistan). The nickname "Mevlana” his disciples gave him, and it means more or less "our great master” (arab ), to Rumi …
Santa Claus was born in Patara (40 km west of Kas) ok. 280 r. We know little about his youth, except that, that during the persecution of Christianity under the Emperor Diocletian (284 – 305) he was imprisoned several times. …
Ionian philosophers
As a result of the rapid development of Greek society and changes in economic and political life in the so-called. the period of archaic Greece (lata 800 – 500 p.n.e.) there has also been progress in the field of spiritual culture. Interested, as a result of colonization outside the city-state, …
The Five Pillars of Islam
The Muslim ritual has five responsibilities, called pillars of religion, which are recognized by all believers, regardless of affiliation to sects and fractions.
1. Confession of faith, or shahadah (arab. certificate), it is a confirmation of strict monotheism and prophetic mission …
Byzantium
Byzantine art was formed from the Greco-Roman tradition and its combination with oriental elements. It is considered the culmination point of the development of early Christian art, a was born after Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 r. The greatest artistic activity …
Ancient Greeks and their heirs – Romans
Most of the ancient cities, visited by tourists in Turkey, the Greeks raised up, who are undoubtedly the first builders in the history of mankind, constantly striving to discover the eternal and right rules of form and proportion. Even if we visit cities …