Bartol Gyurgieuvits (1506–1566) was a Croatia

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n musicologist and Lexicographer

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 born in Turopolje

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 near Zagreb

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As a musicologist

Gyurgieuvits was captured by the Ottoman

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s in the Battle of Mohács

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 in 1526 and lived as a slave for 13 years before escaping. During this period he could learn and grasp the basics of Islamic music

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. Years later, in 1544 he published De Turcarum ritu et caeremoniis in Amsterdam

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 which was one of the first European books to describe music in the Islamic society.

As a Lexicographer

Gyurgieuvits is also known to have written the first known Croatian

Croatian language

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-Latin dictionary

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 in 1544. He is also the author of the practical Italian

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-Arabic

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-Hebrew

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-Chaldean

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

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dictionary. His works in the field were published in many languages.