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The Building of Skadar or The Walling of the Skadar or The Founding of Skadar (Serbian: Зидање Скадра) is a poem of the pre-Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry. It is based on the motif of human sacrifice.
The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.
Dec 30, 2020 · The Building of Skadar (1913) Anonymous, translated by George Rapall Noyes and Leonard Bacon
THE BUILDING OF SKADAR*. built a city- the three Mrljavcevid. was King Vuk'ain, was the Voivode Ugljesa. was Gojko Mrljavcevi6. on the river Bojana. they went on building, with three hundred masons: could they lay, the city of Skadar. built by day, tore asunder. the tower's foundations. canst thou lay the foundations, canst thou build the city."
Jul 21, 2023 · 1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) "With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic.
Abstract Scientific knowledge is transferred, or mobilized, between cultures through the process of translation. One of the largest episodes of such transfer took place between the eighth and the eleventh centuries during the Abbasid Caliphate. Four sources of scientific knowledge were brought into the Arabic language: Greek (Byzantium), Syriac (Eastern Christian cities), Pahlavia (Persia ...
Dec 12, 2022 · The song describes the building of a fortress on the Bojana River at Skadar by three Mrnjavčević brothers. They've been building the fortress for three years but failed to lay even the foundations. Whatever they built during the day, was destroyed overnight by a mountain vila (a fairy similar to a nymph, in Slavic mythology).
