The Poganovo Monastery ( Serbian : Mанастир Погановo , romanized : Manastir Poganovo ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery situated in the gorges of the river Jerma , near the village Poganovo , municipality of Dimitrovgrad , Serbia .
5-504: According to some sources the frescoes were made by masters from Northern Greece . Frescoes inscriptions are in Church Slavonic language . Poganovo Monastery was protected by Serbia since 1949, and declared Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia . 42°58′47″N 22°38′15″E / 42.97972°N 22.63750°E / 42.97972; 22.63750 This article about
10-420: A Serbian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northern Greece Northern Greece ( Greek : Βόρεια Ελλάδα , romanized : Voreia Ellada ) is used to refer to the northern parts of Greece , and can have various definitions. The term "Northern Greece" is widely used to refer mainly to the two northern regions of Macedonia and (Western) Thrace ; thus
15-660: The Church of Greece . Voreia Ellada is also one of the four Greek NUTS regions, created for statistical purposes by the European Union . Until 2014, it encompassed the four administrative regions Eastern Macedonia and Thrace , Central Macedonia , West Macedonia and Thessaly . Coming into effect in January 2015, the Greek NUTS regions were redefined, with Voreia Ellada now encompassing Epirus instead of Thessaly. This NUTS division
20-605: The Thessaloniki -based Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace was known as "Ministry for Northern Greece" (Υπουργείο Βορείου Ελλάδος), and previously as the Governorate-General of Northern Greece (Γενική Διοίκηση Βορείου Ελλάδος), until 1988. The term Lower Greece was mentioned in 16th century western correspondence when the region was under Ottoman rule, it included Northern Epirus and Western Macedonia . The term Northern Greece may also, according to context, incorporate
25-589: The region Epirus . When Epirus is included, it is broadly coterminous with the "New Lands" (Νέες Χώρες), i.e. the territories added to the Kingdom of Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, as opposed to pre-1912 "Old Greece" (Παλαιά Ελλάδα). This distinction survives in the ecclesiastical domain, where the dioceses of the "New Lands" de jure still adhere to the Patriarchate of Constantinople , but are de facto under
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