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The armored boat "Jadar" of Serbian inland waterway fleet was officially launched into the river Sava in Čukarica. The celebration was attended by VII Infantry Regiment commander, Col. Milisav Lešjanin, XI Infantry Regiment commander, Lt. Col. Milijan Nedeljković and a number of officers and citizens. Тhе engine for the boat was taken from one car, while the dome with ball bearing was removed from the Austro-Hungarian sunken patrol boat.
In September of that year, there was a large German-Austro-Hungarian attack on Belgrade, when over 30.000 grenades was fired. After fierce street fighting and many killed, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians took over control of the city.
The Four Gospels was printed in Belgrade in 1552, in the printing press which Trojan Gundulić from Dubrovnik had bought from Prince Radiša. The compositor was hieromonk Mardarije from Mrkša's Church.
The activity of Gundulić's printing press and of some other printing workshops, the renewal of numerous churches and the restoration of the Patrarchate of Peć show that the Serbian people was having some kind of national and cultural revival around the middle of the 16th century.
A hundred years after the fall of Smederevo, the capital of the Despotate, two decades after the Turkish siege of Vienna, and about ten years after the establishment of the Buda Pashalik, the Serbs took advantage of a rare and advantageous period of Ottoman tolerance and mustered all their energy, determined to survive in the adverse circumstances, to renew the memories of their past and to hand them over to their descendants as their most precious legacy. This was the heritage which inspired all later movements and insurrections, and, ultimately, the restoration and resurrection of the Serbian state.
An engraving of Josef Eder, published in Vienna. It is a panorama of Belgrade, seen from across the Danube, with the Lower Town and its port in the foreground.
This panorama is one of the better, more accurate views of Belgrade. It testifies to the traffic on the Danube and gives us an idea of Oriental Belgrade as it looked before the series of Austrian-Turkish wars 1688-1789 destroyed its economy and completely altered its appearance.
The engraving was made by Mark Quirin. The sheet was published in Vienna and forms a part of a large collection of old maps and engravings. It is one of the numerous representations of the Austrian siege and capture of Belgrade in 1789, and shows the Austrian units penetrating into the town supported by gunfire. In the foreground, the victory is celebrated in the presence of the commander-in-chief Marshal Laudon in the military camp on Dedinje. The engraving depicts the deployment of the troops, their uniforms, life in the camp and the great number of captured Turks.
The woodcut printed by Wolfgang Resch in Nuremberg shows the attack of Piri-Pasha's janissaries on the Lower Town of the Belgrade Fortress. In the extensive Turkish campaign, led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent himself, the Hungarian fortresses on the Sava and the Danube were taken, so that help could not be given to besieged Belgrade. The Lower Town was captured on 28 August, and, after negotiations, Belgrade surrendered on 29 August 1521. The Hungarian garrison and inhabitants were transported by boats to the north, and the Serbian population was deported to Constantinople and its surroundings, where it was charged with the maintenance of the supply of water for the capital. Until recently there existed a village called Beligrad in the vicinity of Istanbul, and a neighbourhood in the city itself was called "Beligrad-mahala".
Wolfgang Resch's woodcut appeared in Germany in the year Belgrade was captured. Three variants of it are known: the one shown here, another of greater height, and a third with a text in two columns at the top, which states hat the fall of Belgrade was God's punishment for discord and sins of the Christians. The representation was not cut inversely, so that one would have to look at it in a mirror to get the right picture of Belgrade. Better known than Resch's original is its replica, without the Turks in the boats, published in Münster's Cosmographia Unversalis, the greatest geographic handbook of the time, which went through more than forty editions, in Latin, German, French and Italian within a century (by 1652).