The Kingdom of the Slavs. Facts of Great History

Mavro Orbini - a Catholic monk, the author of this book, first published in 1601 in Italian - belonged to Western culture. But his book is a true hymn to the greatness of Slavdom, solemn and pathetic, despite the fact that the author follows a millennial tradition of Western historiography. In this very contradiction lies the mystery of this unusual book. Many of its primary sources are truly unique. Moreover, the author - a Dalmatian humanist, a southern Slav - stubbornly defends the unexpected idea of the origin of the ancestors of "the Slavic kin" from the hyperborean North, the European Nord...
When the first edition of the book was released in Europe, a scandal broke out immediately, and the book was banned. A unique edition was published in a translation by the outstanding Russian diplomat of the Petrine era, the Serbian Sava Lukic Raguzinski-Vladislavich, in 1722. The book is published in a version adapted to modern literary standards. An article-commentary and page-by-page annotations will help the reader understand the historical research of the Dalmatian monk, written in a manner unusual for our time. Sensational and extraordinarily large-scale, it does not refute but, on the contrary, confirms long-forgotten medieval testimonies about the ancestors of the Slavs, finding unexpected analogies in the bold hypotheses and discoveries of modern scientists.
In a modern edition, with detailed explanations and an extensive afterword, the book is published for the first time.