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Nemanjić Dynasty
The House of Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Немањић, Немањићи; Nemanjić, Nemanjići, ) was the most prominent Serbian dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. This princely, royal and imperial house produced List of Serbian monarchs, twelve Serbian monarchs, who ruled between 1166 and 1371. Its progenitor was Stefan Nemanja, scion of a cadet branch of the Vukanović dynasty (1101–1166). After Nemanja, all monarchs used ''Stefan (title), Stefan'' as a personal name, or a ruler's name, a tradition adopted for the royal pretensions. The monarchs began as Grand Princes, and with the crowning of Stefan the First-Crowned, Stefan Nemanjić in 1217, the realm was promoted to a Kingdom, and the Serbian Orthodox Church was established in 1219. In 1346, Stefan Dušan was crowned ''Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks'', and the Archbishopric of Serbia was elevated to a Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, Patriarchate. The dynasty's rule in Serbia ended in 1371, with the death of childless Ste ...
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Grand Principality Of Serbia
The Grand Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Великожупанска Србија, Velikožupanska Srbija, separator=" / "), also known by the anachronistic exonym Raška (region), Rascia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рашка, Raška, separator=" / ", link=no), was a medieval Serbs, Serbian state that existed from the second half of the 11th century up until 1217, when it was transformed into the Kingdom of Serbia (1217–1346), Kingdom of Serbia. After the Grand Principality of Serbia emerged, it gradually expanded during the 12th century, encompassing various neighbouring regions, including territories of Raška (region), Raška ( sr-Cyrl, Рашка; ), modern Montenegro, Herzegovina, and southern Dalmatia. It was founded by Grand Prince Vukan, Grand Prince of Serbia, Vukan, who initially served as the regional governor of the principality ( 1082), appointed by King Constantine Bodin. During the Byzantine–Serbian wars ( 1090), Vukan gained prominence and became a self-governing ...
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Vukanović Dynasty
The Vukanović dynasty ( sr-Cyrl, Вукановић, Vukanovići / Вукановићи), was a medieval Serbian dynasty that ruled over inner Serbia, centered in the Raška region (), during the 11th and 12th century. Several members of the Vukanović dynasty also ruled in some other regions (Zachlumia, Travunia, Duklja, and also Croatia). The house may have descended from the Vojislavljević dynasty of Duklja. Vukanović dynasty was later succeeded in Serbia by the closely related Nemanjić dynasty. The Vukanović family was named by later historians, after its founder Vukan of Serbia. However, the family itself is also known as the ''Urošević dynasty'' ( sr-Cyrl, Урошевић, Uroševići / Урошевићи), after Vukan's nephew, Uroš I of Serbia. The rulers of this dynasty were split into two branches: the branch in Raška and the branch in Zachumlia. Rulers of the first branch wore the title Grand Prince ( sr-Cyrl, Велики Жупан) of Serbia, whil ...
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Stefan (title)
The name Stephen ( / Стефан, ''Stjepan'' / Стјепан, ''Stipan'' / Стипан, and #onomastics, others), long popular among South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs, was used as an honorific or as a royal title. It was used by various rulers, like the Trpimirović dynasty, Trpimirović kings of Croatia, Nemanjić dynasty, Nemanjić kings of Serbia and the Kotromanić dynasty, Kotromanić kings of Bosnia. Onomastics The name Stephen is derived from Greek language, Greek ''Stephanos'' (Στέφανος, Romanization of Greek, tr. ''Stéphanos''), meaning "crown". Early Slavs did not use the voice /f/, so the Greek ''Stephanos'' was adapted into ''Stjepan'' (Стјепан) and ''Stipan'' (Стипан) in modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, ''Šćepan'' (Шћепан) in modern-day Montenegro, and ''Stevan'' (Стеван) and ''Stepan'' (Степан) in modern-day Serbia. The name has had hundreds of variants in Serbo-Croatian, most of which are hypocoristics that c ...
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Cadet Branch
A cadet branch consists of the male-line descendants of a monarch's or patriarch's younger sons ( cadets). In the ruling dynasties and noble families of much of Europe and Asia, the family's major assets (realm, titles, fiefs, property and income) have historically been passed from a father to his firstborn son in what is known as primogeniture; younger sons, the cadets, inherited less wealth and authority (such as a small appanage) to pass on to future generations of descendants. In families and cultures in which that was not the custom or law, such as the feudal Holy Roman Empire, the equal distribution of the family's holdings among male members was eventually apt to so fragment the inheritance as to render it too small to sustain the descendants at the socio-economic level of their forefather. Moreover, brothers and their descendants sometimes quarreled over their allocations, or even became estranged. While agnatic primogeniture became a common way of keeping the family's w ...
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List Of Serbian Monarchs
This is an archontological list of Serbian monarchs, containing monarchs of the medieval principalities, to heads of state of modern Serbia. The Serbian monarchy dates back to the Early Middle Ages. The Serbian royal titles used include Knyaz (Prince), Grand Župan ( Grand Prince), King, Tsar (Emperor) and Despot. Early medieval Serbian states (7th century–1166) Vlastimirović dynasty (7th century–960) The Vlastimirović dynasty was the first royal dynasty of the Serb people. Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ''Porphyrogenitus'' (r. 913–959) mentions that the Serbian throne is inherited by ''the son'', i.e. the first-born, though in his enumeration of Serbian monarchs, on one occasion there was a triumvirate. ,, The Serbs established several polities by the 10th century: ''Serbia'' or ''Zagorje'' (''hinterlands'') which consisted of Serbia and small land of Bosnia; and '' Pomorje'' (''maritime'') which consisted of Dioclea, Zachlumia, Pagania, Travunia ...
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Serbia In The Middle Ages
The medieval period in the history of Serbia began in the 6th century with the Slavic migrations to Southeastern Europe, and lasted until the Ottoman Serbia, Ottoman conquest of Serbian lands in the second half of the 15th century. The period is also extended to 1537, when Pavle Bakić, the last titular Despot of Serbia in Hungarian exile, fell in the Battle of Gorjani. At the time of settling, Serbs were already transitioning from a tribal community into a feudal society. The first Serbian state with established political identity was founded by prince Vlastimir in the mid-9th century. It was followed by other Serbian proto states, unstable due to the constant clashes with the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarians, Principality of Hungary, Hungarians and Byzantine Empire, Byzantines, and by the conflict between Catholic Church, Rome and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Constantinople regarding the Christianization of Serbs, Christianization with the Byzantines getting th ...
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Serb
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the Serbian national identity was manifested, with awareness of history and tradition, medieval heritage, cultural unity, de ...
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Romanization Of Serbian
The romanization or Latinization of Serbian is the representation of the Serbian language using Latin letters. Serbian is written in two alphabets, Serbian Cyrillic, a variation of the Cyrillic alphabet, and Gaj's Latin, or ''latinica'', a variation of the Latin alphabet. Both are widely used in Serbia. The Serbian language is thus an example of digraphia. The two alphabets are almost directly and completely interchangeable. Romanization can be done with no errors, but, due to the use of digraph (orthography), digraphs in the Latin script (due to letters "nj" (њ), "lj" (љ), and "dž" (џ)), knowledge of Serbian is sometimes required to do proper transliteration from Latin back to Cyrillic. Standard Serbian currently uses both alphabets. A survey from 2014 showed that 47% of the Serbian population favors the Latin alphabet whereas 36% favors Cyrillic; the remaining 17% preferred neither. Use of romanization Serbo-Croatian was regarded as a single language since the 1850 Vien ...
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Plural
In many languages, a plural (sometimes list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated as pl., pl, , or ), is one of the values of the grammatical number, grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that noun. This default quantity is most commonly one (a form that represents this default quantity of one is said to be of ''singular'' number). Therefore, plurals most typically denote two or more of something, although they may also denote fractional, zero or negative amounts. An example of a plural is the English word ''boys'', which corresponds to the singular ''boy''. Words of other types, such as verbs, adjectives and pronouns, also frequently have distinct plural forms, which are used in agreement (linguistics), agreement with the number of their associated nouns. Some languages also have a dual (grammatical number), dual (denoting exactly two of something) or other systems of number categories. ...
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Branković Dynasty
The House of Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранковић, Brankovići / Бранковићи, ) is a Serbian medieval noble family and dynasty. According to genealogies created in the first half of the 15th century, the family descends via female lineage, through marriage with the Nemanjić dynasty. The family rose to prominence during the fall of the Serbian Empire. The original family domains were centered in the Kosovo region. Later family members extended their rule over all remaining unconquered regions of Serbia making them the last sovereign rulers of medieval Serbian state. The dynasty ruled the Serbian Despotate from 1427 to 1459 and their descendants continue to claim the throne of the Despotate Serbia, some having entered the ranks of the Hungarian aristocracy, while other descendants of the dynasty continue to go by a courtesy title. Members of the family intermarried with other noble houses from neighbouring countries including Austrian and Hungarian nobility, and prov ...
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Lazarević Dynasty
The House of Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Лазаревић, Lazarevići / Лазаревићи, ) was a Serbian medieval royal family, which ruled Moravian Serbia and the Serbian Despotate. History The dynasty began with Lazar Hrebeljanović, son of Pribac Hrebeljanović a noble at the court of Dušan the Mighty. Lazar married Milica Nemanjić, member of the collateral branch of the reigning Nemanjić dynasty, and was later given the title "Knez" by Serbian Emperor Uroš the Weak. He gained lands in Central Serbia and through his ties with the Nemanjićs he became the regent of Moravian Serbia. In the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottoman Empire, Lazar was killed and Serbia became a vassal state, leading to the end of Serbian sovereignty. Monarchs Rulers of Moravian Serbia from 1371 to 1427. *Lazar Hrebeljanović (1371–1389) *Stefan Lazarević (1389–1427) Family tree *Pribac **Draginja, who married Čelnik Musa, founder of Musić noble family **Lazar; ''Lazarevići ...
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Dejanović Noble Family
The House of Dejanović ( sr-Cyrl, Дејановић, Dejanovići / Дејановићи) or House of Dragaš ( sr-Cyrl, Драгаш, Dragaši / Драгаши) originates from a medieval noble family that served the Serbian Empire of Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331–1355) and Uroš the Weak (r. 1355–1371), and during the fall of the Serbian Empire, after the Battle of Maritsa (1371), it became an Ottoman vassal. The family was one of the most prominent during these periods. The family held a region roughly centered where the borders of Serbia, Bulgaria and North Macedonia meet. The last two Byzantine Emperors were maternal descendants of the house. The progenitor, ''sevastokrator'' Dejan (Serbian nobleman), Dejan, was a magnate in the service of Emperor of Serbia, Emperor Dušan, and also the Emperor's brother-in-law through his marriage with Teodora-Evdokija. Dejan held the ''župe'' (counties) of Žegligovo and Preševo under Dušan, and later received the Serbian titles, ti ...
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