Some of the most beautiful stories from Serbia’s past are connected to Sretenje. These include, first and foremost, the story of a nation that rose in a single generation from the status of a humiliated subject to a nation that introduced the most advanced legal flows of its time. Already by the next generation, Serbs practically gained the universal right of men to vote, again being among the first in Europe.
The early 19th century Serbian literary scholar, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, is known as our country’s greatest language and orthography reformer.
Jovan Cvijić, scientist and writer, is among the few great men whose merits exceed geographical, ethnic and temporal limits.
(Vlad III Drăculea, Vlad Țepeș 1431 - 1476)
Without any doubt, the most famous Romanian of the Middle Ages is Vlad the Impaler. He was born in late 1431 in Sighisoara.