Serbian Despotate

former country (1402-1459/1537)

fortress in Serbia

ended by the Battle of Varna

The Manasija Monastery (, ) also known as Resava (, ), is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Despotovac, Serbia founded by Despot Stefan Lazarević between 1406 and 1418. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It is one of the most significant monuments of medieval Serbian culture and it belongs to the "Morava school". The monastery is surrounded by massive walls and towers. Following its foundation, the monastery became the cultural centre of the Serbian Despotate. Its Resava School was well known for its manuscripts and translations throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. Manasija comple

historical region of Serbia

14th-century set of laws

Rascians ( / Raši, Rašani; ) was a historical term for Serbs. The term was derived from the Latinized name for the central Serbian region of Raška (; ). In medieval and early modern Western sources, exonym Rascia was often used as a designation for Serbian lands in general, and consequently the term Rasciani became one of the most common designations for Serbs. Because of the increasing migratory concentration of Serbs in the southern Pannonian Plain, since the late 15th century, those regions also became referred to as Rascia, since they were largely inhabited by Rasciani (Rascians). Among th

1440 siege

1443 battle in present-day Bulgaria

structure in Belgrade, Serbia

battle in 1444

thumb|100px|Drawing of 15th-century specimen found in Italy. Schiavonesca (in , "Slavic sword") was a type of sword characterized by an S-shaped crossguard and a square pommel whose earliest specimens were found in late 14th-century Serbia. It was used by knights in the Kingdom of Hungary and Republic of Venice during the 15th and 16th centuries.

1430 battle of the Hussite Wars

1402 battle

family

thumb|250px|Shirgj and nearby towns Shirgj was an important market town on the left bank of the river Buna, away from Shkodër, in what is today northern Albania. It was a medieval trading center, until it lost its population and ceased to exist in the early Ottoman period.

Military conflict

1440 military blockade of Novo Brdo

old Serbian ruler biography

1427–1521 banate of the Kingdom of Hungary

monastery