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Serbian Empire
Serbian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1346–1371 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Prizren Skopje Serres[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Religion | Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Serbian Orthodoxy) (official) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Serbian, Serb | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emperor (Tsar) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1346–1355 | Stefan Dušan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1355–1371 | Stefan Uroš V | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• Coronation of Stefan Dušan | 16 April 1346 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31 May 1349 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1369 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 December 1371 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Serbian perper | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Serbian Empire (Serbian: Српско царство / Srpsko carstvo, pronounced [sr̩̂pskoː tsâːrstʋo]) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom of Serbia. It was established in 1346 by Dušan the Mighty, who significantly expanded the state.
During Dušan's rule, Serbia was the most powerful state in Southeast Europe and one of the most powerful European states.[2] It was an Eastern Orthodox multi-ethnic and multi-lingual empire that stretched from the Danube in the north to the Gulf of Corinth in the south, with its capital in Skopje.[3] Dušan also promoted the Serbian Archbishopric to the Serbian Patriarchate. In the Serbian Empire, the region of Kosovo was the most prosperous and densely populated area, serving as a key political, religious, and cultural center.[4] His son and successor, Uroš the Weak, lost most of the territory conquered by Dušan, hence his epithet.
The Serbian Empire effectively ended with the death of Uroš V in 1371 and the break-up of the Serbian state. Some successors of Stefan V claimed the title of Emperor in parts of Serbia until 1402, but the territory in Greece was never recovered.[5][6][7] From the ruins of the Serbian Empire, Moravian Serbia emerged as the largest and most powerful Serbian state under the rule of the Lazarević dynasty, later playing the key role in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 against the Ottoman Empire.
- ^ Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson (1991). "Serres". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1881–1882. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ^ David Nicolle; (1988) Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe 1000–1568 (Men-at-Arms) pp. 35, 37; Osprey Publishing, ISBN 0850458331
- ^ Positive Peace in Kosovo: A Dream Unfulfilled by Elisabeth Schleicher, p. 49. 2012
- ^ UNESCO, World Heritage Scanned Nomination. "DEČANI MONASTERY" (PDF). p. Chapter 3. Description, Section b. History and Development.
At the time of great rise of the Serbian state in the early 14th century, Kosovo was the richest and most densely populated region, with political, ecclesiastical and cultural centers
- ^ Dvornik 1962, pp. 111–114.
- ^ Fine 1994, pp. 286–382.
- ^ Ćirković 2004, pp. 63–80.
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