This thesis processes issues related on „anti-Turkish theme“ in epic texts that are stereotypical construct of Turks as the most common enemies in south Slavic literature, in this case The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (1846.) by Ivan Mažuranić and The Mountain Wreath (1847.) by Petar Petrović Njegoš. By the fact that they're published in a short time interval and that they're studying very similar theme, semantic relations between these two aren't coincidental, considering also the historical relations on both Mažuranić and Njegoš with their stylistic and thematic preoccupations, among the exchange of certain ideas characteristic for romantic period. Common characteristic of these two writings refer on a review of mutual literal connections properly through imagery which is being built on enemy construction. In accordance, mid part of the thesis brings out the imagological interpretation based on theoretical framework offered by Davor Dukić in his study about a figure of an Opponent in Croatian historical epics. Stage of both positive and negative attributions in each epic poem is being analyzed through radically opposed „We-encampment“ and „Opponent encampment“. Literal discourse that is building up an image of the enemy in both of these epic poems is shaped distinctively binary, through distinctions of „good/evil“, mostly in harmony with romantic poetics, but also upgraded on a famous epic tradition.