The medieval Serbian empire proclaimed by Stefan Dušan at Skopje in 1346, doubling Serbia's size by conquering the western Balkan lands of a Byzantium in civil war. At its height (to Dušan's death in 1355) it ran from the Danube to the Gulf of Corinth — Serbia, Kosovo, Zeta, all Macedonia, much of Albania, Epirus and Thessaly — the dominant power in the Balkans, though Thessaloniki held out as a Byzantine exclave. It fragmented rapidly under his son Uroš V into rival Serbian, Greek and Albanian lordships before the Ottoman victory at the Maritsa in 1371.
Fragmented after the death of Emperor Stefan Dušan in 1355 into rival Serbian noble domains, then effectively ended as a Serbian political entity when the Ottoman Empire defeated the Serbian princes at the Battle of Kosovo on 28 June 1389.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Serbian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1346 · 1356.
The standard scholarly synthesis of the medieval Serbian state and its frontiers, incl. Dušan's conquests.
Standard English-language overview of Serbian history including the medieval empire period.
Byzantine context for Dušan's expansions and imperial title claim.
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