 tamburica ( or ) or tamboura (, , , meaning "little tamboura"; ; , sometimes written tamburrizza or tamburitza) refers to any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in southern europe and central europe, particularly hungary, bosnia and herzegovina, serbia (especially vojvodina), slovenia, croatia (especially slavonia). it is also known in burgenland. all took their name and some characteristics from the persian tanbur but also resemble the mandolin, in that its strings are plucked and often paired. the frets may be moveable to allow the playing of various modes. ==history== thumb|left|220px|the area where tamburica is played. there is little reliable data showing how the tamboura entered central europe. it already existed during byzantine empire, and the greeks and slavs used to call "pandouras" (see pandoura) or "tambouras" the ancestor of modern bouzouki.elizabeth jeffreys, john haldon, robin cormack, the oxford handbook of byzantine studies, oxford university press, 2008, p. 928. nikos maliaras, byzantina mousika organa, epn 1023, isÎn 978-960-7554-44-4 [archive] the instrument was referred to as Î¸Î±Î¼ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¹Î½, thambourin in the byzantine empire (confer digenis akritas, escorial version, vv. 826-827, ed. and transl. elizabeth jeffrey). it is said it was probably brought by the turks to bosnia, from where the instrument spread further with migrations of Å okci and bunjevci above the sava river to all parts of croatia, serbia and further,treÅ¡njevka tamburica ensemble: over tamburica - short history although this theory is not consistent with the generally accepted view that the ancestor of the tamboura is the ancient greek pandouris. the modern tamburica shape was developed in hungary (budapest) in the end of 19th century. until the great migration of the serbs at the end of the 17th century, the type of tamboura most frequently used in croatia and serbia had a long neck and two or three string
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