The Pokajnica Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Покајница, romanized: Manastir Pokajnica, lit. "Repentance Monastery") is a monastery complex in Velika Plana, Serbia.
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Velika Plana is a town and municipality located in the Podunavlje District of Serbia. As of 2022, the town has 14,609 inhabitants, while the municipality has 35,451. Velika Plana lies on the left bank of Velika Morava.
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Staro Selo, formerly Adžibegovac is a small town in the municipality of Velika Plana, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 3022 people.
The village is the birth place of revolutionary Stojko Krivokuća.
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The Koporin Monastery is a monastery at the outskirts of the town of Velika Plana, Serbia, just off the road to Smederevska Palanka. The monastery church, dedicated to St. Stephen, was built during the reign of Despot Stefan Lazarević whose portrait is preserved as a fresco inside the church, under the inscription "Despot". Stefan Lazarević acquired this title after the Battle of Ankara in 1402, and on that basis the painting was dated. The ktetor and the exact time of the monastery's founding is unknown. Stefan Lazarević is buried in this church. The monastery was in a dilapidated state until the 1880s, when reconstruction began. In the late 1950s and 1960s, massive conservation of architectural elements and paintings was finished.
Koporin Monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1979, and it is protected by the Republic of Serbia.
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Kupusina is a village in the municipality of Velika Plana, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 267 people.
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Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Velika Plana, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1256 people. The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo.