Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.
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With Arsenije III Čarnojević he came to settle in Szentendre, where he began to make a name for himself as the dean of a scriptorium, a diligent copyists of manuscripts and books, and writer of the first Serbian primer called Bukvar (1717)
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In Zenta he remained for a while, joining the Christian frey against the Turks in the Battle of Zenta.
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Jovan Skerlić, Istorije nove srpske knjizevnosti (Belgrade, 1921) pages 26–27
In 1690 he was a refugee from the Turkish army in Sentandrea, Hungary where he become a disciple of Kiprijan Račanin, who started a school for young monks, similar to the one in the municipality of Rača, near the river Drina, in Serbia.