Marko Kral (known in popular work as: King Marko, Kings Marko, Marko Krubeviti, Krossevic Marko, and in historical sources such as: “Young King Mark,” Bottle King Marko “) (Prilep, Ok. 1346 – Rovine, in Craiova , Vlach, 17. 1395) – The last king of Macedonia (1371-1395), the oldest son-successor of King Volkashin. As a 16 year old in 1361 He was sent to the State Mission in Dubrovnik. He probably participated in the Battle of King Volkashin and Brother Despot of Kosovo in 1369. Against the Serbian armies of Prince Lazar Chrabeljanovic, Zupane Nikola Althomanovic and Emperor Uros, when the armies from Macedonia were defeated and the king of Uros were captured. In a gram of King Volkashin for the Dubrovnik Republic (5 ⅳ 1370), in addition to the name of Queen Elena, the two oldest sons of Marko and Andreja are listed, but without titles. In the inscription of the Prizren Church “St. Sunday “(before August 1371) is already stated that the church was painfully” on the orders of the young king Marco “. In June 1371 King Volkashin with the son of Marko with the army were in Shkodra, ready-made (in a sort of Relatives Balsic and with the help of Venice) to attack the Zupane N. Alteranovic, but after the call from the despot, the danger of the Breakthrough of the Ottomans, the campaign is interrupted and the army is directed to Eastern Thrace. In the Maric battle (26. 1371) King Volkashin and the despot of Ugotha failed to prevent the breakthrough of the Ottomans in Europe, catastrophically they were defeated, and they were killed. Marco inherited the father’s royal crown and continued the dynasty, based in Prilep. On the western facade of the church “St. Archangel “In Varos (1371 or 1372), especially Kings Volkashin and Mark, and above the southern door of the church” St. Dimitria “In Mark’s monastery are presented with the Royal Church” St. Dimitrija “(Markov monastery), with. Sushica, Skopje (ⅹⅳ c.) Insigni and purple FON two Prilep kings. The scroll in the left hand of Marko of the State Old Slavic language writes: “I am in Christ God, the God of God Mark, I created and examined this divine temple,” while data for the entire royal family and the kitrors: “Renew This overwhelming temple of the Holy Great Martyr of Hristov Wen of Hristov and the Wonderworker Dimitrija with the Word and Payment of the Grender King Volkashin and the Great Queen Elena and the seals of their daughters and the sons of Grender King Marko and Andreyash, Ivanish and Dimitrija in the year 1377, and this monastery began to be Wall in 1345 in the days of the grateful king of Stephen and the Christ’s king of Volkashin, and ended in the days of the grain and Christ’s king of Marko. ” An additional confirmation of family data is also in the extensive inscription on the wall of the church “St. Andreja “End Lake Matka (Skopje), built in 1389. From the independent ruler of a part of the northwestern Macedonian Marko, Fresco from the Mark Monastery (ⅹⅳ c.) The second Volkashinov son Andrey: “… create and wretched … with labor and the struggle of the Christ’s spiritual edge of God and the second son On the Great King Volkashin and the Queen Elena – the nun Elizabeth “. The only two preserved frescoes represent the real, very suggestive character of King Marko. He coarved his own money in Ohrid in Ohrid (his money, and his mother, Elena-Elizabeth and brother Andreyash, built churches and monasteries in the dictation of the Ohrid Archbishopric, recovered the economy, was interfered in the court wars of Byzantine rulers and, according to The forces, defended its borders. Some peripheral areas, however, were taken away from neighbors: Andrej Gruba took Ohrid, Ijurj Balsic knocked Prizren, the brothers John and Constantine Dragle-up to-bar part of Eastern and Central Macedonia, while Vuk Brankovic entered Skopje (1392) . The kingdom was held for two decades, S “to Mark’s death, when he died (along with Constantine Dragaska) as Sultanov Vasal in the battle with the Vlach Christian Duke Mircea. The people could not reconcile with such a fate of his king and the tradition conveyed that he said shortly before the battle Mark, I said: “I ask the Lord to be a helper to Christians, so let me be the first among the dead in this fight.” Since Mark’s Kings symbolized the last free life and development of the people in Macedonia before the debt-owned Ottoman slavery, it found a strong reflection in the folk tradition, in the songs, traditions and legends, and an unsurpassed myth was created. In 1845 Russian Slavity V. Grigorovich testifies: “In all viewed ends of Macedonia, I did not hear other names, except for Aleksandar V.Selikic and Marko Krševic. And one and the other live in the memory of the people in many general characters. ” To date, many toponyms in Macedonia carry his name and celebrate his strength and power. Portraits in churches (standing in the Royal Odorma with his father) handed the memory of generations about faith and courage in battles for freedom, transferring the legend that Markend is not dead, but hidden in a cave and awaits the day when it will rip from the darkness to free the people. In that spirit is the script “King Mark” (1914) of D. Chupovski, and K. Misirkov (1923) Invited the world: “King Marko is the Son and the pride of Macedonia and one of the three warring who blew the name of his homeland away from its borders.” After Aleksandra, the Macedonian and the Holy Cyril and Methodius, he also lists the third: “King Marko subordinate them under his authority and under the Macedonian muse, all folk singers and peoples of the Balkan Peninsula”. Marco’s dramatic state and personal life gave rich opportunities for the construction of Mark’s Epos and myth. He was married with Elena, the daughter of Radoslav Chlunt, who left the death of Volkushon, and took his wife to the ruler of Polog Blogur Brankovic Theodora. In the new political brings and interests, Mark gave his second woman Theodora, and how replacing him back his “Elena” replacement. But about 1374/75 She closer to Albanian nobleman John Spat and he remained without a woman and without a breed and heir. Such marital relations have given a good basis for the folk tradition and the rich Krasardkovski cycle in the Macedonian, even in the South Slavic People’s Creation. The image completed the fate of the brothers: Ivanish died in Berat in battle with the Ottomans (1385), and Andrejash and Dimitri finally left Macedonia (1394) and put in the service of Hungarian King Zyzycmund. Lit.: Mavro Orbin, Krileal Slavs, Belgrade, 1968; K. P. 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