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decani
[ dih-key-nahy ]
decani
/ dɪˈkeɪnaɪ /
adjective
- music to be sung by the decanal side of a choir Compare cantoris
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of decani1
Example Sentences
A native of the area, he helped turn Decan, which Serbs call Decani, and surrounding villages into a guerrilla stronghold during the war.
Serb Orthodox leaders long protested works to greatly widen a road brushing the 14th Century Visoki Decani Monastery - one of Kosovo’s top mediaeval Serbian monuments.
Monk Sava Janjic from the Visoki Decani monastery said on Twitter that the “arrangement will protect the monastery from the construction of the international road, which will go via a bypass, and in return will enable rehabilitation of the existing road … for local use.”
Kosovo and Serbia have been in EU-negotiated talks - that included the Decani road issue - since 2011 but few of the signed deals are applied.
Visoki Decani Monastery was founded by Serbian King Saint Stefan Decanski, who was buried there after being killed by his son’s followers.
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