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28-452: Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941) and Tatomir Vukanović (1907–1997) argued that the name derived from Thracian krisio , or Illyrian krüsi , which would according to the Albanian term kryeziu mean "dark, dark-haired or swarthy people". In Serbo-Croatian, kričiti and kriknuti means "shouting"; kričak means a "person who shouts". As such, Andrija Luburić and Mitar Pešikan presumed that

56-767: A Ph.D. in 1908 with a thesis on Lukijan Mušicki , a Serbian poet from 18th century. His professors at Vienna were Vatroslav Jagić , Konstantin Jireček , and Milan Rešetar . Ćorović was to receive a golden ring from the University of Vienna as one of the top students. He refused to accept the award on account of Bosnian Crisis . In 1908 Ćorović went to Munich for specialized studies in Byzantine history and philology with Professor Karl Krumbacher . Ćorović spent certain time in Bologna and Paris , exploring Old Slavic manuscripts. In

84-661: A folk tradition of the Drobnjaci, in which they are recounted as being part of the Mataruge tribe, who after the first onrush of Slavs in Herzegovina , and death of Mataruge king Sumor in the end of the 7th or beginning of the 8th century, retreated to the areas around the Tara . Here, the Serbs gave the tribe the name Kriči , because their speech sounded like "shouting" ( kričanje ). The tribe accepted

112-552: A folk tradition transmitted in the Joksimović brotherhood held that the Kriči descended from the Illyrians, "but today there are no more of their direct descendants". Another belief recorded by P. Rudić, likely influenced by literature, was that the Kriči may have been descendants of Saxons ( Sasi ) that worked in the mines of Brskovo and around Pljevlja . A. Luburić (1891–1944), describes

140-526: A letter he noted that such job "is both hard and not meant for everyone". He moved to Sarajevo in September, 1909, and worked as a curator and later administrator at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina , this period started his intensive years of working. He was a contributor to many known Serbian journals, such as „Bosanska vila“, „Srpski književni glasnik“ and „Letopis Matice srpske“. Ćorović

168-644: A prominent Serb Orthodox family involved in business. Ćorović finished primary school and the Gymnasium in Mostar , in which he was one of many future Serb intellectuals, among whom was also his brother the novelist Svetozar Ćorović . Ćorović continued his studies at the University of Vienna in 1904, studying Slavic Archaeology , History and Philology . He was active in the Serbian academic group „Zora“. Ćorović gained

196-482: Is mentioned as a region in the 1260 charter of Stefan Uroš I regarding the borders of the village of Prošćenje (near Mojkovac ); Kričan borders the village to the north. The toponym may have given its name to the people, or vice versa. In ca. 1300 was mentioned personal name Kričan . They several times violently fought with Drobnjaci tribe (including Kriči voivode Kalok) and were moved over Tara river. Then inhabited lands from Sutjeska to Kolašin . Their center

224-460: Is mentioned priest Radojica Kričak, while 1762 priest Maksim Kričković. Their tribal name remained in the anthroponomy (surname Kričković), and toponymy of lands where lived; Kričak and Kričačko polje in Sinjajevina, Kričina near Bribir , village Kričke near Drniš , another two homonymous villages near Pakrac , and Kričići near Jajce . Various folk traditions have been preserved and recorded on

252-600: The Mataruge , the Žurovići and the Burmazi , who in the 12th and 13th centuries immigrated across the Zeta to the Neretva . It is established that there were "Arbanassi (Albanian) groups" in the Tara region in 1278. During the 14th centuries, the Albanian katuns had been largely assimilated by numerous Vlach communities, who were themselves in a process of Slavicisation . The name Kričan

280-578: The National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in favour of unification with Serbia. With several Yugoslavist poets and writers ( Ivo Andrić and Niko Bartulović among others) Ćorović had established the Književni Jug , a literary review. In parallel, Ćorović worked closely with other Yugoslav politicians from different provinces within the Austro-Hungarian territories. Čorović was present at

308-475: The Kriči and their history. As concluded in Vlahović 1970 , folk tradition on the Kriči is very different, although it is clear by tradition and literature that the tribe lived as an independent unit, and once in time included a relatively large area. According to oral tradition, Kriči inhabited Jezera and Šaranci, and good part of Sinjajevina . According to Mula Joksimović of Bijelo Polje, as recorded by Petar Rudić,

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336-584: The Kriči received their name from the Serbs because, supposedly, they "shouted" when they spoke. Aleksandar Loma considered possible derivation from the ethnonym of early Slavic tribe of Krivichs (via weakening of intervocalic in Zeta–Raška dialect ). They lived in the region of the Tara river, with authors such as Bogumil Hrabak and Petrit Imami including them in a wave of other Albanian pastoral migrant groups, such as

364-639: The Royal Yugoslav Government on its way to exile during the Invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he died in a plane crash on 12 April 1941 on Mount Olympus in Greece . Radovan Samardžić dubbed him "the last polyhistor" and stated that Ćorović is one of the great Serb historians. Bosnian historian Boris Nilević stated that "Ćorović had an emotional incentive but he remained impartial in his conclusions about

392-514: The Sasi, who were experienced in the extracting of ore. Their settlements, located by the mines, had privileged status – they lived under their own laws and were allowed to adhere to Catholicism and build their churches. Mines included Brskovo , Novo Brdo , and others. The villages of Šašare and Sase, Srebrenica , and the Saška reka was named after the community. Also, the settlement of Šaškovac near

420-516: The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, labeling Ćorović detailed scholarly work (based on published diplomatic correspondence and unpublished sources in various languages) as alleged anti-German propaganda. For similar reasons, the first volume of diplomatic correspondence of Serbia, prepared also by Vladimir Ćorović was never officially published, again at the demand of Nazi German representatives for its allegedly anti-German attitudes. Following

448-545: The advancement of Byzantine studies at the University of Belgrade. His scholarly works includes critical interpretations of Byzantine and Serbian medieval documents, studies regarding medieval historiography and various monographs devoted to the Serbian monasteries of Bosnia ( Tvrdoš , Duži , Zavala ) to the relations between the Serbs of Montenegro and Muslims in Albania . Mount Athos and Hilandar ("Sveta Gora i Hilandar")

476-642: The fact that the region of Mataruge is smaller and taken as a peripheral part of the larger, in widest sense, Kričak region. Conversely, folk tradition in Polimlje and Potarje hold the Mataruge as unrelated to the Kriči. The locals of the Kričak region call the village of Kričak, Krčak , because it allegedly was the place of a "Greek warrior settlement". Vladimir %C4%86orovi%C4%87 Vladimir Ćorović ( Serbian Cyrillic : Владимир Ћоровић ; 27 October 1885 – 12 April 1941)

504-643: The mid-13th century from Hungary. Serbia's mines were developed by the community. The earliest mention of Saxons in Serbia is from 1253–54, which shows them as an established community. These Saxons, or Sasi , had settled the Kingdom of Serbia during the reign of Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), from the Kingdom of Hungary . Under Stefan Uroš I, Serbia became a significant power in the Balkans, partly due to economic development through opening of mines. The mines were developed by

532-408: The name, and it spread in the middle Potarje . According to M. Peruničić and P. Čabarkapa (born ca. 1880) and confirmed by a similar tradition by B. Ćorović (born ca. 1894) and younger S. Bojović of Pljevlja, the Kriči were once a numerous tribe, living in the region of Kričak (southeast of Kosanica , while the Mataruge had only comprised one of its many brotherhood This tradition is "supported" by

560-549: The solemn proclamation of the formation of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade on December 1, 1918. Dissatisfied by the treatment of the Serbian victims after the war, Ćorović wrote the Black Book (Beograd-Sarajevo, 1920), about the large-scale persecution and murders of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Vladimir Ćorović was a Europe-wide renowned scholar. Ćorović

588-656: The treated issues". Some critics noted that in the name of Yugoslav unity Ćorović did not mention the ethnic compositions of several divisions which committed massacres and war crimes over Serb civilians in Mačva in WWI, such as predominantly Croat 42nd Home Guard Infantry Division . Streets in Belgrade and Niš are named after him. Vladimir Ćorović Award was established in his honour. Posthumously published: Saxons in medieval Serbia Saxons , known as Sasi ( Serbian Cyrillic : Саси ), migrated to medieval Serbia in

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616-465: Was a Serb historian , university professor, author, and academic . His bibliography consists of more than 1000 works. Several of his books on the history of Serb , Yugoslav , Bosnian and Herzegovinian uprisings are considered to be definitive works on the subject. Vladimir Ćorović was born in Mostar in Herzegovina , then under Ottoman sovereignty but under Austro-Hungarian administration, to

644-535: Was also a secretary of the Serbian cultural society „ Prosvjeta “ in Sarajevo and organizer of its annual publication (Calendar) of 1911. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, Austro-Hungarian authorities arrested Ćorović. He was indicted in the Banja Luka process (November 3, 1915 - April 22, 1916), along with other Serbs from Austria-Hungary accused of high treason . Ćorović

672-584: Was first sentenced to five years, but the High court increased it to eight years because of his contribution to the Serb cultural progress through Prosvjeta . The new Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Charles I of Austria , after international pressure by the Spanish king, released political prisoners in 1917 granting them amnesty. At the end of World War I, Ćorović moved to Zagreb , jubilant with its Croat-Serb coalition in power and

700-498: Was in Pljevlja (with local toponym Kričak between it and Bijelo Polje ). In his anthropological work Drobnjak (1902), Svetozar Tomić mentioned the Španje and Kričove as the old population of Drobnjak . Kotor documents mention Lore Kričko ( Lore de Criçco ) in 1326, and Kriče Vitomirov ( Crice Vitomiri ) in 1327. Dubrovnik archive mention Dobrija and Đurađ Nenadić from Krički (de Crizche) in 1453. In Ottoman defter from 1477

728-474: Was professor of Serbian history at the University of Belgrade since 1919, and Rector of the Belgrade University in the 1934–35 and 1935–36 academic years. Ćorović published over 1,000 works. He rarely touched upon Byzantine themes, but the Byzantine component in his professional education was very significant for the very important support for the personnel changes which, in the 1930s, brought about

756-509: Was published by the Hilandar monastic brotherhood in 1985. Ćorović did not manage to finish the work, which was untitled, due to the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. His book on diplomatic and political history, regarding relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary in the early twentieth century, was prevented from being distributed in 1936, after the ambassador of Nazi Germany intervened at

784-595: Was recorded nahija Kričak, with 5 džemat ( katuns ), one by knez Jarosav, another on name Nikola son of Kričko, as well nahija Mataruge with 3 katuns . In 1492, in Poljica in Dalmatia was recorded David Kričković. In 1528, Nikola Grubanović Kričak from village Kruševica transcribed a Church book. In the memorial of Hilandar from 16h or 17th century is mentioned Filip Kričak and several his Kričak relatives. In 1694 in Drniš

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