The Deževa Agreement ( sr, Дежевски споразум) concluded in 1282 in

Deževa Deževa is a village situated in Novi Pazar municipality in Serbia. This is where the known is accepted famous Deževa Agreement The Deževa Agreement ( sr, Дежевски споразум) concluded in 1282 in Deževa changed the policy of t ...

changed the policy of the medieval

Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Prin ...

. In 1282, King

Stefan Dragutin Stefan Dragutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Драгутин, hu, Dragutin István; 1244 – 12 March 1316) was King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and (from 1284) the neig ...

was replaced by

Stefan Milutin Stefan Uroš II Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Урош II Милутин, Stefan Uroš II Milutin; 1253 – 29 October 1321), known as Stefan Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Милутин, Stefan Milutin), was the King of Serbia between 1282&nd ...

, his younger brother, with the royal title to revert after his death to one of

's sons. The official version of the incident is that King Dragutin's horse fell in the vicinity of Fort

Jeleč Jeleč (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелеч) is a medieval fortification located in southwestern Serbia, 12 km south of present-day Novi Pazar, on one of the three peaks of Rogozna mountain. Today, the fortification is mostly in ruined state, howe ...

, incapacitating him with a broken leg. The Serbian Archbishop Danilo II reports great confusion after the accident, and the people, facing the threat of attack from a neighbor, forced King Stephan to hand over the royal title to his brother. As part of the agreement, King Milutin took the Bulgarian princess

Anna Terter Ana Terter (Bulgarian and sr-cyr, Ана Тертер; died after 1304) was a Bulgarian princess and Queen consort of Serbia (1284–1299). She was the fourth wife of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Her marriage to Stefan Milutin is d ...

as a wife and radically changed the foreign policy, directing it to the seizure of Byzantine possessions, becoming an ally of the

Second Bulgarian Empire The Second Bulgarian Empire (; ) was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed between 1185 and 1396. A successor to the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conqu ...

. A large temple dedicated to

Saint Sava Saint Sava ( sr, Свети Сава, Sveti Sava, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; gr, Άγιος Σάββας; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1236), known as the Enlightener, was a Serbs, Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox monk, the first ...

is being built on the site.Храм Светог Саве на извору српске историје
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References

{{Reflist 13th century in Serbia Nemanjić dynasty 1280s treaties