Then ruled by the Ottoman Empire and a major regional centre as the capital of the vast Silistra Province, today the city is part of Bulgaria.
He visited and unsuccessfully attempted to study in Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples and Otranto, though he was always in trouble due to his Eastern Orthodox religious views, and had to leave Italy before the end of 1719 after less than half a year there.
From 1737 to the end of his life, Parteniy was based in the city of Karlowitz in the Habsburg monarchy's Military Frontier (today Sremski Karlovci in Vojvodina, Serbia),[1] a prospering centre of South Slavic education and culture at the time.
He spent some time in the Rila Monastery[4] in September 1734,[6] where he perused medieval Bulgarian and Greek texts and left behind marginal notes.
According to some sources, it was in the Wallachian prison that Pavlovich wrote his autobiography, which testifies to his commitment to the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and his dream of South Slavic unity.
[1] Bar his marginal notes in medieval texts, as a writer Pavlovich left behind a few poetical works and many translations of religious books from Greek to Church Slavonic.