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  AllRefer.com - Stephen Dusan (Yugoslavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Stephen Dusan[both: ste´fAn dOO´shAn] Pronunciation Key, c.1308–1355, king (1331–46) and czar (1346–55) of Serbia, son of Stephen Uros III.
He later was involved in indecisive warfare against Bosnia and Louis I of Hungary, but in 1355, on the news of the fall of Emperor John VI, he decided to march on Constantinople.
Stephen Dusan was one of the great conquerors in European history.
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Stephen died shortly after the completion of the building in 1199, and was buried in it, but in 1207 he was reinterred in the monastery of Studenica, in Serbia, also founded by him.
The reign of Vladislav's son and successor, Stephen Uros I (1242-76), was characterized by economic development and the strengthening of the internal administration.
Stephen Dusan, who reigned from 1331 till 1355, was Serbia's greatest ruler, and under him the country reached its utmost limits.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Forbes1.html   (3217 words)

  
 The list of Publised Papers
Dusan Hesek, Marta Toth, Viktor Krchňák, Rafael Fridman, and Shahriar Mobashery.
Mikhail Rekharsky, Dusan Hesek, Mijoon Lee, Samy Meroueh, Yoshihisa Inoue, and Shahriar Mobashery.
Marta Toth, Pamela Osenkowski, Dusan Hesek, Stephen Brown, Samy Meroueh, Wael Sakr, Shahriar Mobashery, and Rafael Fridman.
www.nd.edu /~dhesek/Papers.htm   (2099 words)

  
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When Stephen came of age, his parents arranged that he marry the daughter of the Bulgarian King Smilatz, and the young couple were given the land of Zeta, where they settled until such a time as Stephen would be called to succeed his father to the throne.
She convinced Milutin that Stephen wanted to seize the throne prematurely, and the deceived Milutin ordered that his son be captured, that he be blinded to ensure that he never again entertain such treachery, and that he be sent as a prisoner to Constantinople.
Dusan's successes on the field of battle had given him an appetite for power and glory, and, encouraged by his entourage of nobles, he decided to hasten his father's death.
www.sv-luka.org /articles/svkralj.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Conversation with Iraqi Intellectuals -- Logos Winter 2003
The Americans were Stephen Eric Bronner of Rutgers University, Anne Burns, Kurt Jacobsen from the University of Chicago, Michael Thompson from CUNY and the editor of Logos as well as Richard Couto, Antioch University and Dusan Bjelic from University of Southern Maine.
Dusan Bjelic: It doesn’t really matter to the United States whether they have a rational explanation or not, what interests them is a temporary pragmatic solution to their problems and their interests, whether you agree rationally or not.
Stephen Eric Bronner: I’m Jewish, and I can tell you that there are a lot of American Jews who are not supportive of Sharon and not supportive of Israeli policies and in the same way we draw a distinction between the Iraqi regime and the Iraqi people that has to be done here too.
logosonline.home.igc.org /iraq_conversation.htm   (5467 words)

  
 Byzantine Studies Conference: 1999 Abstracts
Stephen Bartlett (St. Louis Univ): The Sacrificial Lamb: The Importance of the Byzantine Eucharistic Rite in the Azyma Controversy
Stefan Dusan of Serbia conquered Eastern Macedonia in 1344-1345.
Having annexed Byzantine territories, Stefan Dusan acted as one of the sides in the incessant Byzantine civil wars: he was obviously accepted as such by many of the local magnates exhausted by decades of civil strife and tired of ever shifting political alliances.
www.byzconf.org /1999abstracts.html   (16256 words)

  
 Decani History
Stephan Dusan, known as "Dusan the Mighty," was born in 1308.
Dusan had the construction of the church continued, and this work came to an end in 1335.
Emperor Dusan died suddenly in 1355 and was buried in the church he built, the monastery of Holy Archangels near Prizren.
www.kosovo.net /dechist.html   (2610 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Serbia, 1204-1459
The greatest King of the Nemanjic dynasty was STEPHEN DUSAN (1331-1355) who took on the title Tsar of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346; under him, the Serbian kingdom greatly expanded, including the Belgrade area, Albania, Epirus, Thessaly and Macedonia.
Stephen Dusan is also known for the codification of law which took place during his reign.
Under Stephen Dusan's successor STEPHEN UROS (1355-1371) civil war broke out over Dusan's succession, and many of the areas gained by Dusan were lost again.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/serbia12041459.html   (297 words)

  
 Croatia Myth&Reality: Borders were drawn to benefit Croatia
Serbians at the time were under the control of Bulgar or Byzantine rulers and did not organize their first state until 1170.
Serbia reached its zenith under Czar Stephen Dusan who died in 1355.
His death was followed by civil war among Serbian nobles which led to a Turkish invasion.
wap.macedonia.org /myth/borders.html   (1942 words)

  
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Its founder, Stephen Nemanja, had his capital as Ras, near Novi Pazar, but united the zupanate of Raska to that of Zeta, which was roughly equivalent to modern Montenegro.
Dusan's aim was to found a new dynasty at Constantinople, but he died one year after the first establishment of the Turks in Europe, and with startling rapidity his empire fell to pieces, the Turks being the chief gainers.
His son, Stephen Uros V, lived until 1371, the year in which the Turks defeated a united Slav army at the battle of the Maritsa, but long before his death the Serbian Empire existed only in name with its territory disputed by feuding warlords.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Winnifrith1.html   (3901 words)

  
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
With the death of Stephen Dusan (1356) the ill-consolidated empire of Servia collapsed: his successors were ciphers; whereas Orchan, the Sultan of the Ottomans, handed down a well-disciplined State, built on strong foundations, to a line of eminent princes.
The voivod of this country was Stephen Vukcid, and in 1448 he received from the Emperor the title of "Duke (Herzog) of St Sabas"; whence the complex of his lands derived the name of Herzegovina^ the Duchy.
A cry of mortification at the fall of this bulwark arose in Hungary and Italy, and the disaster was attributed to the corruption and cowardice of Stephen Tomasevic.
www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh103.html   (16720 words)

  
 Chronology of the Middle Ages in Europe
Stephen Dusan conquered Western Macedonia and concluded a cease-fire with Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III.
After the death of Pope Clemens VI, the cardinals tried to usurp all power in the Church but the newly elected pope, Innocent VI was able to block this effort.
~~~ Stephen Dusan (Urus IV) of Serbia was defeated by the Ottoman Turks under Orhan in the Battle of Demotika.
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 Selected Presentations
Cosimo C.S. Fuda, Dusan Hesek, Mijoon Lee, Sergei Vakulenko and Shahriar Mobashery.
Marta Toth, Dusan Hesek, Stephen Brown, Shahriar Mobashery and Rafael Fridman.
Novel acid-promoted rearrangement of carbonate functionality attached at the bottom of a cone-calix[4]arene skeleton: A new class of chiral calix[4]ar ene and its chiroptical properties.
www.nd.edu /~dhesek/Selected_Presentations.htm   (744 words)

  
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A statue of the 14th-century King Dusan of Serbia lay on the ground in Prizren, Kosovo, Sunday after it was toppled by local Albanians.
Stephen had himself crowned emperor of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346.
His empire collapsed, however, under his son and successor, Stephen Uros V (1355-71).
www.geoffreyfox.com /comments1999.html   (2251 words)

  
 Digital Media Europe: Contributors - Dusan Babic - Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Dusan Babic, however, did not spend a single day practicing law, but considers himself a lawyer by training, more precisely, a human rights and media Lawyer.
Dusan Babic has more than three decades of outstanding journalist and other media-related experience.
Actively engaged in the two Univerities of Communications of SEE, organised by the MPI in 2001 and 2003, Dusan has been particularly involved in researching new information and communications technologies (ICTs) processes and developments and their socio-cultural impact, including the regulation and self-regulation of communications in cyberspace - more precisely, online journalism.
www.dmeurope.com /?par=editors&EditorID=8&ArticleID=1052   (266 words)

  
 kosovo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the village, there are also the foundations of the church of St. Stephen, ruins of the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary completely renewed in 1925 and the remains of the church of St. Nicholas Letnji on which a new building was built in 1938.
Petric is mentioned in the biography of King Stephen Decanski in connection with his conflict with his son, King Stephen Dusan, which took place in 1331.
At the time of Emperor Stephen Dusan, there was a mint in the town and the coins with the name of the town started to be minted in 1349.
members.tripod.com /Vasiljevic/News/kosovo.htm   (15048 words)

  
 An Avant-Garde of One
This was a sad rift, because Ray Durgnat has always been a supporter, discoverer and even inventor of film avant-gardes, a rare taste in the world of professional film criticism in the UK.
He has taught in many art schools, those seedbeds of the avant-garde, notably at the Slade School of Fine Art, St Martin's School of Art, the RCA and more recently the University of East London (UEL).
Stephen Dwoskin, Film Is (London: Owen, 1975; New York: Overlook Press, 1985).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/20/durgnat_rees.html   (2348 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for Serbs in Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In about 1170, Stephen Nemanja became grand ‘zupan’ of Raska, shook off Byzantine hegemony, and united both states into one Serbian kingdom which remained the strongest state in the Balkans for the next 200 years.
Under Tsar Stephen Dusan, Serbian arts and economy flourished and in 1349 he formalized the existing mixture of Byzantine laws and Serbian customs into a legal code known as the Dusanov Zakonik.
Dusan expanded the empire’s boundaries to include All of modern-day Albania, Macedonia, Epirus, and Thessaly.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=34401   (15951 words)

  
 My Family
Children were: Donna Marie Gilbert, Thomas Brian Gilbert, Joseph Stephen Gilbert, James Michael Gilbert.
Children were: Maria Dugas, Blanka Dugas, Slovka Dugas, Dusan Dugas, Ladislav Dugas.
Children were: Marla Louise Dugas, Louis Stephen Dugas, Paul Francis Dugas, Julia Ann Dugas.
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 serbia
In acknowledgment of the territorial gains made by Serbia after World War I, in 1918 Petar, although in retirement, received the title of king of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
Rebelled against father Stephen UroSIII and seized power (1331); seized Macedonia, Albania, and large parts of Greece from Byzantine Empire; had himself crowned emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgars, and Albanians (1346); drew up legal code (1349-54); conquered Bosnia (1350) and was marching on Constantinople at time of death.
Son and successor of Stephen Nemanja; did much to solidify the unity of the Serbian state; obtained a royal crown from the papacy; received an independent archbishopric for Serbian church for his brother St. Sava from the Byzantine emperor.
website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/serbia.htm   (749 words)

  
 Carl K. Savich - The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History
After the death of Dusan in 1355, Kosovo was ruled by King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, who was a co-ruler with Tsar Uros, the last of the Nemanjic rulers.
In The Kosovo Chronicles, Dusan T. Batakovic examined the 1330 Decani Charter which showed that out of 2, 166 farming homesteads and 2, 666 houses in cattle grazing land, 44 were registered as Albanian, which is 1.
Byzantine rule was replaced by Serbian rule until the death of Stephen Dusan in 1355 which resulted in the disintegration of the Serbian Empire.
www.snd-us.com /history/savich_kosovo-origins.htm   (13446 words)

  
 Acropolis of Serres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Its importance lies both in its overall form and in the clay inscriptions built in its west wall.
According to these, the tower was built in 1370 by Orestes, the castle-guard of Serres, after an order of Stephen Dusan.
It is located at the NE end of the castle, very close to the fortification wall.
www.culture.gr /2/21/212/21212a/e212la01.html   (325 words)

  
 The History of Agistri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Some of the few archaeological artefacts found on the island are on display in the Cultural Centre in Milos.
In more recent times, the island became a haven for Albanian refugees (Arvanites) from Serbian imperial expansion in the fourteenth century under Stephen Dusan and later in the years when the region was part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Albanian influence can still be seen in the long colourful dresses and headscarves of some of the older women, particularly in Megalochori (Milos).
www.imstudies.gr /Angistri/history.htm   (408 words)

  
 The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History | Carl Savich | Columns | Serbianna.com
During the reign of Stefan Dusan, 1331-55, the area o Antivar (Bar), Prizren, Ohrid, and Vlora were added to the Serbian Empire by 1343.
In 1346 the patriarchal throne was permanently established at the Pec Monastery.In 1346, after Epirus and Thessaly were added to the Serbian Empire, Dusan was crowned the emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Albanians.
Miranda Vickers, Noel Malcolm, Alex Dragnich, and Dusan Batakovic all are in agreement that the population of Kosovo changed over time and that Albanians were not the majority population of Kosovo in the medieval period.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/011.shtml   (10223 words)

  
 A timeline of the Slavs, Magyars and Bulgars
1001: the Pope recognizes Stephen I (Vajko Arpad) as the king of Hungary
1003: Stephen I annexes Transylvania to Hungary and assigns it to a "voivod" (prince)
1457: Stephen the Great and Holy is voivode of Moldavia till 1504
www.scaruffi.com /politics/slavs.html   (2439 words)

  
 Time1c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
1308 - Stephen Dusan, King/Emperor of the Serbs, born.
1355 - Stephen Dusan, King/Emperor of the Serbs, died.
1533 - Stephen Bathory, King of Poland and Transylvania, born.
www.byzantios.net /modar/Time1c.htm   (7328 words)

  
 Icons by Anonymous Icon-Painters in the 14th Century Up To Macedonia's coming Under Ottoman Turkish Rule (3)
We have, however, already seen that icons were donated later as well, as is testified to by the silver plates with the name of Sebastocrator Kyrious Isaac Doucas Kersak, of whom it is known that when Ohrid came under the sway of Serbian Feudal rules he went over to their side.
century (from 1283) with the conquests of King Milutin and Czar Stephen Dusan, an expansion of the borders of the medieval Serbian state began.
On this icon the Mother of God is dressed in a dark red maphorion and in her left arm she holds the infant Christ.
www.soros.org.mk /konkurs/019/eng/txt08_3.htm   (1826 words)

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