Moravian Serbia
| Moravian Serbia | ||||||||||
| Моравска Србија Moravska Srbija |
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 Moravian Serbia
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| Capital | Kruševac | |||||||||
| Languages | Serbian | |||||||||
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox Church | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Prince (knez) | ||||||||||
| • | 1373–1389 | Lazar Hrebeljanović | ||||||||
| • | 1389–1403 | Stefan Lazarević | ||||||||
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| • | Established | 1373 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1403 | ||||||||
| Currency | Serbian perper | |||||||||
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Moravian Serbia (Serbian: Моравска Србија / Moravska Srbija) is the name used in historiography for the largest and most powerful state to emerge from the ruins of the Serbian Empire. In 1403 it was raised to the Serbian Despotate, which would exist until 1459 (de jure until the 1560s). Moravian Serbia was established in 1373 and attained its largest extent in 1379 through the military and political activities of its first ruler, Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović.
The name Moravian Serbia should not imply that the state was affiliated in any way with the region of Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic. The adjective Moravian in this sense refers to the fact that the state comprised the basins of the Great Morava, West Morava, and South Morava rivers.
Lazar Hrebeljanović was born in around 1329 in the fortress of Prilepac, near the town of Novo Brdo in the region of Kosovo, Kingdom of Serbia. Lazar was a courtier at the court of Serbian Tsar Stefan Uroš Dušan, and at the court of Dušan's successor, Tsar Stefan Uroš V (r. 1356–1371). Uroš's reign was characterized by the weakening of the central authority and the gradual disintegration of the Serbian Empire. Powerful Serbian nobles became practically independent in the regions they controlled.
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