Hellenistic religious influence is attested through archeological findings in Rovine and Tamnič where Heracles was worshipped: a relief of Zeus, Herakles and Dionysos found in Bukovo.
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At the same time, many Negotinians went to famous European universities, seeking education and enlightenment, e.g., Stevan Mokranjac, one of the five most important Serbian composers and Đorđe Stanojević, a physicist and an astronomer who later became University of Belgrade Rector.
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However, these great days were short lived: In 1813, after Napoleon had successfully taken Russia and Austria out of the game and therefore helping Serbia, the Turks crushed the ill-fated state of the Serbs.
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Gavrilo Vitković (Buda, Austrian Empire 28 January 1829 – 25 July 1902 Negotin, Kingdom of Serbia) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts.
Such laws or statutes were made at first for the Vlachs of the monasteries of Dusanovac (near Negotin,State: Bor), Studenica and Milosevo.