Andra Gavrilović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Serbian writer and historian
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Place of Birth: Svilajnac, Pomoravlje District, Serbia
About Andra Gavrilović
- Andra Gavrilovic (Serbian: ????? ??????????; 11 July 1864, in Svilajnac, Principality of Serbia – 24 February 1929, in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was Serbian historian, historian of literature, writer and diplomat. He also specialized in works of Dositej Obradovic.Gavrilovic disagreed with opinion of Jovan Tomic that figure of Djemo the Mountaineer was based on Jegen Osman Pasha.
- In his polemic work 'Who wasn't Djemo the Mountaineer, correction of someone's literary-historical mistake' (Serbian: ?? ???? ??? ???? ???????, ???????? ???? ?????????-????????? ??????).
- he emphasized that Djemo was in fact Albanian nobleman Gjin Muzaki because he assumed that Serbian epic poetry about struggle between Marko Kraljevic and Djemo the Mountaneer was based on real struggles between Prince Marko and Muzaka family from Albania.According to Andra Gavrilovic the figure of Vuca General is based on Tanush Dukagjin, a member of Dukagjini noble family from Albania.
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