Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)

The Hilandar Monastery (, , , ) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian Orthodox monastery there. It is ranked fourth in the Athonite hierarchy of 20 sovereign monasteries.

1217–1346 Medieval kingdom in Eastern Europe

historical region of Serbia

Serbian Orthodox monastery

ecclesiastical architectural style that flourished in the Serbian Middle Ages

medieval Serbian kingdom

The '''' (Nomocanon of Saint Sava, , or ()) was the highest code in the Serbian Orthodox Church. It was finished in 1219. This legal act was written in simple language. Its basic purpose was to organize the continuation and functioning of the Serbian Kingdom and the Serbian Church. It was originally printed under the name Rules of Speech ('') in Serbian at Raška, Serbia, in two successive issues, one for Wallachia and another for Transylvania (in 1640). It is Serbia's first Serbian-language church-state constitution.

ecclesiastical architectural style

region in southeastern Europe

1344 battle

Kaznac () was a court title of the state employee in medieval Bosnia and Serbia who was in charge for the treasury in the territory under his jurisdiction — kaznačina (казначина). The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word kazna (). The kaznac was a financial-taxation service, translated into Latin camerarius (itself rendered "chamberlain").

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.

Serbian Orthodox monastery on Vranjina island, Montenegro

thumb|240px|The Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in Hvosno, seat of Serbian Orthodox church from the late 13th century up to 1766 (as photographed in 1980) Hvosno (, "thick wood") was a medieval Serbian county () located in the northern part of the Metohija region, in what is today Kosovo. It roughly encompassed the areas of the modern Istog and Peja municipalities. It was surrounded by the counties of Jelci to the north; Budimlja and Plav to the west; Zatrnava to the south; Drškovina and Podrimlje to the east and southeast.