Srbulja

The history of printing of early Serbian language books is connected with historical situation on the territory populated by Serbs.

When printing press was invented significant part of this territory was captured by Ottoman Empire which subjected Christian population to process of islamization.

The printing of Serbian language books had a mission to resist to the islamization of the Serbs and to preserve their identity as internal enemies of the Ottoman Empire.

Faced with danger from the Ottoman Empire, Venice and Vatican tolerated to certain extent activities of Serbian diaspora and printing of srbulje.

[13] Three Vuks (Karadžić, Popović and Vrčević) with support of Russian scholars collected almost all remaining srbulje from Montenegro.

Based on the monastic rules of Vikentije Jovanović (Metropolitan of Karlovci) liturgical books had to be written in Russian.