Rača (en serbe cyrillique : Рача) est un village de Serbie situé dans la municipalité de Bajina Bašta, district de Zlatibor. Au recensement de 2011, il comptait 594 habitants. Le monastère orthodoxe serbe de Rača est situé sur le territoire du village.
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Rača is a village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 672 people.
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The Rača Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery 7 km south of Bajina Bašta, Serbia. The monastery was built by Stefan Dragutin. The monastery became a place where Serbian rulers, nobles, and church dignitaries were buried. The monks translated texts from Ancient Greek, wrote histories, and copied manuscripts, which flourished from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century); they translated and copied not only liturgical but scientific and literary works of the period.
History of Serbian literature owes most of its creativity to the Rača School and its alumni, Kiprijan, Jerotej, Čirjak, Simeon, Teodor, Hristifor, Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović, etc. As with the monks of Rača, it is not uncommon for anonymous writers to be referred to by their first name and the name of the place associated with their life or work.
Turkish travel writer dervish Zulih, also known as Evliya Çelebi, noted in his travelogue of 1630 that in Rača Monastery there were 300 monk-scribes, who were served by 400 shepherds, blacksmiths, and other staff. The security guard detail included 200 armed men.
During the Great Turkish War in 1689, the monastery was partially destroyed by the invading Turks. In 1826, it was reconstructed after being burned down several times while Serbia was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
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Mala Reka is a village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 489 people.
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Obajgora is a village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 834 people.
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Bajina Bašta is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. The town lies in the valley of the Drina river at the eastern edge of Tara National Park.
According to the 2022 census, the town's population is 8,971 inhabitants, while the municipality has 23,533 inhabitants.