Jašunja

Jašunja
Jašunja
	Village
	Jašunja
	Coordinates: 43°04′01″N22°01′09″E / 43.06694°N 22.01917°E
Country	Serbia
District	Jablanica District
Municipality	Leskovac
Population (2002)
• Total	514
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Last updated April 11, 2019

Jašunja (Serbian : Јашуња) is a village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 514 people.^[1]

Serbian is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official language of Serbia, co-official in the territory of Kosovo, and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, it is a recognized minority language in Montenegro where it is spoken by the relative majority of the population, as well as in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

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Leskovac City in Southern and Eastern Serbia, Serbia

Leskovac is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the city urban area has 60,288 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 144,206.

Culture

Monastery of John the Baptist, Leskovac

Monastery of John the Baptist is the oldest surviving monastery on the slopes of Babička Gora. It was built in 1517 on the foundations of the older church, which was three centuries old. Monastery is an endowment of Andronicus Kantakouzenos and his brothers. The little church within the complex had frescoes both in the interior and exterior, preserved iconography and partial relics of an unknown saint. Above the entrance is the fresco of Saint John the Baptist. After the October Revolution, a group of Russian monks settled in the monastery when the spiritual and physical renewal of the monastery began. After the World War II, the new Communist state nationalized majority of the monastery land. The last Russian monk, Joasaf, died in 1956 and after him the monastery became abandoned.^[2]

Babička Gora is a mountain in southern Serbia, near the city of Leskovac. Its highest peak, Kriva buka has an elevation of 1,059 meters above sea level.

The October Revolution, officially known in Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution and commonly referred to as the October Uprising, the October Coup, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Bolshevik Coup or the Red October, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd on 7 November 1917.

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Partial conservation works were conducted in 1986 and 1987. In May 1986 the state placed it under protection. By 2007 the konak was almost completely deteriorated while the church was dilapidated. Since then, the new konak was built with two dining rooms, a hall, kitchen and a monastic cell. A completely new bell tower was built, so as a summer house, gate and a wall, which encircled the churchyard. In October 2017, through several festivities, 500 years of the monastery was celebrated.^[2]

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References

↑ Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9
1 2 Milan Momčilović (28 October 2017), "Pet vekova jašunjske svetinje" [Five centuries of Jašunja's sacred object], Politika (in Serbian), p. 14

Coordinates: 43°04′01″N22°01′09″E / 43.06694°N 22.01917°E / 43.06694; 22.01917

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[1] Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9

[Politika-2] 1 2 Milan Momčilović (28 October 2017), "Pet vekova jašunjske svetinje" [Five centuries of Jašunja's sacred object], Politika (in Serbian), p. 14