Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Great Migrations of the Serbs" in English language version.
Two written statements by Arsenije survive, specifying the number of people: at the end of 1690 he gave it as "more than 30,000 souls", and six years later he wrote that it was "more than 40,000 souls". These are the most authoritative statements we have...
Subsequent controversy has swirled around doubtful Albanian claims of a larger initial presence and doubtful Serbian claims of virtually no Albanian presence until Ottoman pressure pushed them in for religious as well as political reasons.
The original painting was commissioned in 1896 by Patriarch Georgije Brankovic. The artist was Paja Jovanovic. He was one of the most illustrious Serbian painters of his generation and his depictions of the greatest moments of Serbian history placed him firmly at the centre of the national artistic renaissance of the time