Emperor of Serbia 1331–1355
He turned a kingdom into an empire that stretched from the Danube to the Gulf of Corinth, crowned himself Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians, and drafted a legal code that became medieval Serbia's most important text — then died suddenly at forty-seven, leaving an empire that collapsed within a generation.
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan became King of Serbia on 8 September 1331 and spent fifteen years conquering southeast Europe, building what became the most powerful state in the region. On 16 April 1346 he took the title Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians, ruling a multi-ethnic, Eastern Orthodox empire with its capital in Skopje. He enacted Dušan's Code, elevated the Serbian Church to a patriarchate, completed his father's mausoleum at Visoki Dečani Monastery, and founded the monastery of the Holy Archangels. As Ottoman Turks pressed into Europe, he worked to build a coalition with V…
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