The Jugovic brothers ( / ''Braća Jugovići''), or Nine Jugović ( / ''Devet Jugovića''), commonly known as the ''Jugovići'' ( sr-Cyrl, Југовићи), the nine sons of Jug Bogdan (

Vratko Nemanjić Vratko Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Вратко Немањић; fl. 1325–1355) was a Serbian nobleman, father of Prince Lazar's spouse Princess Milica of Serbia. Serbian epic poetry identifies him with Jug Bogdan (, "South Bogdan") or Ljutica Bogdan ( ...

), are popular mythological characters of

Serbian epic poetry Serbian epic poetry () is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centu ...

. In poems, the Jugović brothers and their

blood brother Blood brother can refer to two or more people not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This is in modern times usually done in a ceremony, known as a blood oath, where each person makes a small cut, usually on a finger, han ...

Miloš Obilić Miloš Obilić ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Обилић, ) is a Legend, legendary Serbian knight traditionally said to have served Prince Lazar during the Ottoman Serbia, Ottoman invasion of Serbia in the late 14th century. Although absent from conte ...

fight to their death in the

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(1389), dying as heroes. This is based on mythology, in which Miloš Obilić and other knights lost their life "in glory as martyrs". One of the earliest accounts of the battle was the Florentine chancellor

Coluccio Salutati Coluccio Salutati (16 February 1331 – 4 May 1406) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and notary, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history ...

(died 1406) who described twelve Christian noblemen who broke through the Ottomans, one of whom killed the Sultan (in later accounts, that knight was identified as Miloš Obilić). The brothers have been depicted in the arts, such as by Croatian painter Mirko Rački, Serbian painter

Adam Stefanović Adam Stefanović ( sr-Cyrl, Адам Стефановић, 27 November 1832 – 6 May 1887) was a Serbian lithographer and painter. Together with Pavle Čortanović, he authored illustrations of the ''Kosovo Cyclus'' (of Serbian epic poetry). ...

, and on a

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in the Tronoša Monastery, which is popularly associated with the Jugovići. The

Serbian Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the populatio ...

awards an order to mothers of more than four children, named after the mother of the Jugović brothers.

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