Mileševa Monastery
Mileševa ( Serbian - Cyrillic Милешева ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in the valley of the Mileševa River in the south-west Serbian mountainous region about 5 km east of Prijepolje .
history
The monastery was built by the Serbian King Stefan Vladislav in the first half of the 13th century. His grave is now in the church of the monastery . According to traditional doctrine, the Bosnian king Tvrtko Kotromanić was crowned king of Serbia and the coastal region here in 1377 (see Tvrtko_I. # Kingship ). In the 15th century, Prince Stjepan Vukčić Kosača extended his territory to the former Serbian territories on which the monastery was located. In 1449 Vukčić changed his title of duke , which he had given himself in the previous year, to that of a duke "from Saint Sava ", named after the saint whose bones were buried in the monastery at the time. Despite the appeal to the Serbian national saint, Vukčić remained religiously indefinite and did so in order to adorn his actual power with a title and to avoid suspicion of being a follower of the Paterenen sect .
Culture
In the monastery there is one of the most important frescoes in Serbia: The “White Angel” (Beli Anđeo), as well as the relic of the left hand of St. Sava.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mustafa Imamović: Bosnia-Herzegovina until 1918 . In: Dunja Melčić (Ed.): The Yugoslavia War: Handbook on Prehistory, Course and Consequences . 2nd updated edition. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-33219-2 , p. 75 .
- ^ John Van Antwerp Fine Jr .: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . University of Michigan Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 , pp. 578 .
- ↑ Frank fighters: Kosače . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe. Vol. 2 ed. Mathias Bernath / Felix von Schroeder. Munich 1976, pp. 485-486 [online edition]; URL: http://www.biolex.ios-regensburg.de/BioLexViewview.php?ID=1184 , accessed on June 5, 2017
Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′ 18.7 ″ N , 19 ° 42 ′ 33.5 ″ E