The 'monastery of Ostrov, ((Czech) Ostrovský klášter or Ostrov u Davle (lat. Insula)), was a Benedictine monastery in Bohemia. The monastery ruins are located south-west of Davle on the Vltava St. Kilian in Czech Republic.
History edit
The monastery was intially started by Boleslav II and completed by his son, Boleslav III, c.1000. The monastery was founded by monks from Niederaltaich Abbey and may have been situated into the border area of the Přemyslid dynasty to that of the Slavník dynasty
The monks built the settlement Sekanka at the area between Vltava and Sázava, which was the economic base for the monastery.
The monastery hosted the Abbot of Saint John and the Velíz.
In the power struggle following the death of Ottokar II of Bohemia , the monastery and settlement Sekanka were destroyed by the troops of Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal in 1278.
While the monastery was being rebuilt, Sekanka remained desolate. It is believed that the monks instead of rebuilding Sekanka, expanded the village Davle as a new economic and commercial center. In 1381 the monastery was ransacked again and in 1403 it burned down.
On the 14th of August, 1420, Hussites plundered and destroyed the monastery. After the Hussite wars, some monks moved into the monastery, however the building remained ruinous and fell more and more. It was finally abandoned in 1517, when the last monks transferred the abbot to St. John's.
Archaeological excavations edit
The monastery and the settlement Sekanka have been extensively archaeologically examined. Today, the foundation walls are preserved. The ruins of the monastery were flooded by the Vltava in 2002, damaging it.
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Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuʿaybiyya, and the "Classical Revival, Julian Raby, "Muqarnas", Vol. 21, Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers (Brill, 2004), page 290-291;"Herzfeld make a few lines later, in which he suggests that if one were to draw out the the four facades of the lower stories of the Aleppo minaret the result would resemble the facade of a Venetian, presumably Gothic, palace.[...].He makes the point clearly: the Aleppo minaret belongs to an architecture that "is the product of Mediterranean civilisation".
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- The akinji losses at the battle of Targoviste (Tergoviste) in 1595 were so great that reorganization appeared unlikely; as a result, this corps lost a great deal of importance.™ Rather than using it, the Ottoman commanders now depended on the nomadic light cavalry of the Crimean hans, whose brutality and ferocity terrified their captives but were undeniable even by the Ottomans. --Ottoman Armies and Warfare, Geza David,The Cambridge History of Turkey, ed.SURAIYA N. FAROQHI and KATE FLEET, page 296.
- "The end and culmination of it—the Seljuq, Mongol, and Timurid conquests of all of the lands that had once constituted the Iranian cultural world—falls outside the scope of the millennium covered in this volume, but the first stage of the process of the transformation of Central Asia from a civilizationally Iranian population to a Turkic one, including the beginning of the conquest stage, signaled by the Qarakhanid Turkmen conquest of Transoxiana in 999, certainly falls within its purview." --The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia, D.G. Tor, Minoru Inaba
- C. Edmund Bosworth (2005), "Osrušana", in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Accessed November 2010 [1] Quote 1: "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society". Quote 2: "At the time of the Arab incursions into Transoxania, Osrušana had its own line of Iranian princes, the Afšins (Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh, p. 40), of whom the most famous was the general of the caliph Moʿtaṣem (q.v. 833-42), the Afšin Ḵayḏar or Ḥaydar b. Kāvus (d. 841; see Afšin)", "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society."