"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood." -- Edwin Markham
======================(in south-central Serbia) The city of Kraljevo is found along the north bank of the Ibar River in a fertile agricultural region. The city’s heavy industry includes the manufacture of railway rolling stock, metal equipment, springs, wagons, ceramics, and firebrick. Cultural institutions include the National Museum, National Library, and National Theater, as well as the Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage. Just three miles (5 km) southwest of Kraljevo is the 13th-century Žiča Monastery), seat of the first Serbian archbishop, containing fine frescoes of the Raška school of painting. In it, Serbian kings were crowned in the early Middle Ages. The monastery was originally painted red in the tradition of the Mount Athos monasteries. The complex comprises three churches. The Church of the Virgin, built in 1190 by Stefan Nemanja, founder of the Serbian state, is a diminutive church of white marble with delicate ornamentation; its frescoes date from the beginning of the 13th century. The Church of the Ascension of our Lord is a single nave church built in four sections, the third rising up to a high octagonal dome. The King’s Church was built by King Milutin in 1315.
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