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The Heroic epic of Serbia on oral tradition, Marco Kralyevich, is a heroic epic based on historical facts, combining ancient and medieval epic elements with modern heroism. This fact is an important material that should be used to form a general theory when it comes to the oral history of various ethnic groups. In the historical environment of Ottoman Turk's dominance, Serbian people was singing through the track record of a historical hero called Marco in a various way. In addition, it is equally singing the entire life of a human being, such as the birth, hardships, the ways of overcoming and resisting to hostile forces, and death of a hero, so there is sufficient to confirm as one of the common examples of oral historical epic of hero.

Heroic epic of Serbia on oral tradition. Marco Kralyevich, Historical environment. The ways of overcoming and resisting to hostile forces, Death of a hero. Edited oral epic. Kalevala.