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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sremska Rača</span> Village in Vojvodina, Serbia

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rača monastery</span>

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Teodor Račanin was a writer and Serbian Orthodox monk of the Račan Scriptorium School mentioned in Ottoman sources of 16th century literature.

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Račanin is a demonym of people of Rača, Bajina Bašta, or more often, an epithet of members of the brotherhood of the Rača monastery. It may refer to:

Simeon Račanin was a Serbian Orthodox monk and translator. He is mentioned in 1700 along with several other monks at the Rača monastery, all wearing the epithet Račanin: Kiprijan Račanin, Jerotej Račanin, Hristifor Račanin, Ćirjak Račanin, Teodor Račanin, and Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović-Račanin. One of Simeon's works, dated to 1676, is held at the National Museum (Prague).

Grigorije Račanin was a Serbian monk and writer. He is best remembered for his travelogue on rafting in the Balkans in 1739. He was a contemporary of Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović, also a member of the Rača monastery and its literary School of Rača.

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