Monday, April 20, 2009

Serbia


Serbia 10 Dinara 2000 UNC
Portrait of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić; members of the First Slavic Congress held in Prague in 1848 and vignette of the letters Vuk introduced. Banknote was originally released in 2000 in predominantly ochre-yellow colour with brown and green tones. It is gradually replaced with slightly lighter 2006 issue.


Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.

Major works
Primer of the Serbian language (1814)
Dictionary of the Serbian language (1st ed. 1818, 2nd ed. 1852)
New Testament (translation into Serbian) (1st partial ed.1824, 1st complete ed. 1847, 2nd ed. 1857)
Serbian folk tales (1821, 1853, 1870 and more)
Serbian folk poems, vol. 1 (1841)
Serbian epic poetry (1845 and more)
Deutsch-Serbisches Wörterbuch (German-Serbian Dictionary) 1872
Biography of hajduk Veljko Petrović (Житије Хајдук-Вељка Петровића)

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