Zajecar - engleski - niska rezolucija

ZAJEČAR − CAPITAL OF SERBIAN EAST
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because of a small number of students the school was closed
in 1905. With the help of the Ministry of Trade of Serbia and
Belgrade Youth Trade Organization, Artisan-Trading School
was opened in Zaječar on November 7, 1910. It worked until
the end of World War One, and then it grew into two threeyear
long schools: Trading and Artisan. Pursuant to the decision
of Moravska District, in 1934 the Artisan School became
Vocational School for the Learning of Crafts. In 1921, a fourgrade
Trading School was opened in Zaječar, and College of
Trading also worked for some time, and it is especially interesting
that there was Art School in Zaječar from 1923 to 1929.
In 1839, Za je čar gymnasium was moved to Ne go tin, where
the Bishop of Timok also moved that same year. In 1844,
in Ne go ti n it was, pursuant to the Law on Gymnasiums,
turned into a four-grade semi-gymnasium. Renowned people
from Zaječar managed to persuade Duke Mi lo š to return
the gymnasium to Za je čar in 1860, but in 1866 it was moved
to Ne go tin again. Za je čar responded to this decision by establishing
a two-grade real school (1869), which was given
the third grade 10 years later, and the fourth grade in 1880,
when it became junior high school. A year later, the gymnasium
was given its own reading room. For eight years, literary
group “Na pre dak” was active with the Reading room,
around which Zaječar youth gathered.
Resourceful Za je čar MP’s at the Assembly skillfully used
the then applicable assembly procedure and pushed their
request for opening the full gymnasium before the Negotin’s
request, which had been submitted earlier. This caused
great animosity of their neighbors, but Za je čar received a
full seven-grade gymnasium which, as of 1891/92 academic
year, became eight-grade gymnasium. That is how the Zaje
čar gymnasium became one of the five full gymnasiums
in Serbia (The First and Second Belgrade Gymnasium, and
gymnasiums in Kragujevac, Niš and Zaječar).
Accounts say that on St. Jeremiah Day in 1891, on May
1 according to the old calendar, when the Day of the liberation
of the city was celebrated, a foundation stone for the
construction of gymnasium was officially laid in Zaječar. For
Za je čar at that time it was a great celebration. In accordance
with customs, a sealed bottle with inscription and signatures
of state officials, with whose support the construction of the
building had started, as well as with signatures of Mi ha i lo
Bo bi ć, who was the director at that time, was embedded in
the foundations, and municipality president Ili ja Bo ško vi ć.
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Cover page of
“Spo me ni ca”
of Zaječar
Gymnasium,
published for
100 th anniversary
of the school
Almanac
Professor Mi lan
Cve ti ča nin, longtime
principal of Zaječar
Grammar School,
for the prominent
school’s centenary in
1936, wrote a Commemorative
which
is an important
historical resource
even today. The
old professor also
testifies about the
existence of almanac
Za je ča rac, probably
the oldest book
printed in Zaječar.
Besides the almanac,
it contained, he said,
“the information on
fairs, old and new
units of measure, as
well as anecdotes,
witticisms and funny
stories.” There have
been indications
that the book was
printed in 1884 in the
printing house owned
by Mi li sa v Ni ko li ć
Ja go din ac, but, unfortunately,
Zaječar
archives and libraries
have not preserved a
single copy of
that edition.