He brought Serbia to three seas

Stefan Dušan Nemanjić came to the world around 1308 as the secondborn son of Stefan Dechanski. He brought Serbia on three seas! After the death of his grandfather, King Milutin and the crowning of Father Stefan Uros III (January 6, 1322), Dusan was 14 years old when he was assigned to the Zeta administration and was declared a prince.

Even as a young king, he commanded a part of the army in the main attack in the Battle of Velbuz (1330), in which Serbia won the leading role in the Balkans. Relations between him and his father deteriorated in January 1331. The nobility gathered around Dusan constantly persuaded him to rebel against his father and take power. Dusan attacked his father’s court in August 1331 and He detained him together with his whole family in the fortress Zvecan (Kosovo).

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Realizing that the Byzantine Empire had weakened, Dusan decided to lift the empire of a young nation of full strength on the ruins of Byzantium. After all conquests, Stefan Dusan decided to proclaim himself emperor. Dusan is crowned the Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks, Bulgarians and Arbanas on Easter (16 April 1346) in the fortress of Kale in Skopje(today’s Macedonia).

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Under Dusan’s rule, the Serbian influence was extended to the shores of the Aegean Sea and the Holy Mountain. During the largest territorial conquest, the Serbian state expanded on the territories of today’s Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and, of course, Serbia. Or, a total of over 250,000 square kilometers of space inhabited by Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks .. This large country ran from the Danube in the north to the Corinthian Bay in the south. The border in the west was the Adriatic, and in the east the Aegean Sea.

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Dusan developed a wide legislative activity. The first part of the Code was proclaimed in May 1349 in Skopje, and the other part was passed in 1354. The content of the Code seeks to cover almost all areas of life and continued his life long after Dusan’s death.

The integration of the conquered territories into a single state was prevented by the sudden death of Dusan Nemanjic, on December 20, 1355, when the emperor was about 45 years old. Dusan died still young and full of strength when preparing for a hike to conquer Constantinople.

Emperor Dusan had only one child – the son of Urosх who succeeded him, but who failed to save the great state of his father.

He is buried in Prizren, Kosovo. On May 18, 1968, Dusan was transferred to the church of St. Marko in Belgrade. His son had no children.

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A long series of Serbian rulers from the Nemanjić dynasty was interrupted, which was the end of the Serbian empire. 1389. Turks attacked Serbs in Kosovo.