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==Venetian Serbs==
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The [[Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni]] is located in the district of Castello near the [[
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The [[Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni]] is located in the district of Castello near the Bridge [[della Commenda]] at the beginning of the [[Calle dei Furlani]]. It was one of the occupational and devotional schools of [[Venice]] during the 15th century and is today an art gallery.
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The school is also called the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio e Trifone (Dalmatian School of St. George and Trifun]]. Today it is regarded as an important cultural and artistic landmark in [[Venice]], though in its heyday it was a college for [[Illyrians]] or [[Schiavoni]], a martime people from the coast of Dalmatia and Montenegro whose religion was [[Eastern Orthodox]] primarily. It was founded in 1451, commissioned by the Schiavoni or Dalmation population that were subject to the Venetian Republic. There were a large number of them in the city at the time. The long waterfront, called the Schiavoni leading from St Mark’s Square along the [[lagoon]], where merchant ships used to moor, is witness to that.
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The school is also called the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio e Trifone (Dalmatian School of St. George and Trifun]]. Today it is regarded as an important cultural and artistic landmark in [[Venice]], though in its heyday it was a college for [[Illyrians]] or [[Schiavoni]], a martime people from the coast of Dalmatia and Montenegro whose religion was [[Eastern Orthodox]] primarily. It was founded in 1451, commissioned by the Schiavoni or Dalmation population that were subject to the Venetian Republic. There were a large number of them in the city at the time. The long waterfront, called the Schiavoni leading from St Mark’s Square along the [[lagoon]], where merchant ships used to moor, is witness to that.
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