К изучению памятников армянской архитектуры и топонимики в Сербии

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Abstract

The article presents the head of a multi-volume atlas of the catalog "The monuments of Armenian architecture and place names abroad." It presents an overview of the history and development of the community, the geography of its settlement, the state of the church, education and Armenian media. At the end is a table-list of monuments and place names in Serbia. The first mention of the presence of the Armenians belong to the IX-XI centuries., At the time of the forcible relocation of the Paulicians in the north of the Balkans. The first written evidence of building activity refers to 1218, when a "Lato Papuc son" built a church dedicated to St. Jacob Nisibinsky and the Apostle St. Peter in the town Vitovnitsa leaving the building of the Armenian-Serbian bilingual. A year later, in 1219, after the event, one of the most venerated saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which after the first pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visited Armenia and Cilicia invited to his home builders Armenians - St. Sava (1169-1236 approx.), was ordained archbishop became the spiritual leader of the whole of Serbia.