Nemanyid Dynasty Is Founded in Serbia
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Empires, Dynasties
- Curriculum: Medieval History/Middle Ages, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Balkans, Serbia and Montenegro
- Date: 1168
Article abstract: The Nemanyid dynasty is founded in Serbia and extends its power from the eastern Sava River to the south of Thessaly by the middle of the fourteenth century.
Summary of Event
As historian Ferdinand Schevill observes, information about the Serb people in the early medieval period is “fragmentary and unsatisfactory. Serbs settled in the Balkan Peninsula in the sixth and seventh centuries and were converted to Christianity in the ninth century. Their petty principalities were nominally governed by a grand zhupan, who recognized Byzantine...
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