Dečani chrysobulls
| Charter of Dečani | |
|---|---|
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Original first page | |
| Also known as | Dečani charter |
| Date | 1330 |
| Place of origin | Kingdom of Serbia |
| Language(s) | Old Serbian |
| Author(s) | Stefan Uroš III |
| Dedicated to | Visoki Dečani |
| Exemplar(s) | Archive of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
The Dečani chrysobulls (Serbian: Дечанске хрисовуље/Dečanske hrisovulje) or Dečani charters (Дечанске повеље/Dečanske povelje) are chrysobulls dating to 1321-1331, signed by Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia, the Serbian King, which contains a detailed list of households and villages in what is today Metohija and northwestern Albania.
King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331) mentioned that the court dignitaries present at the Dečani assembly were the kaznac, tepčija, vojvoda, sluga and stavilac.[1]
Demographics
The first charter concludes that the region was ethnically Serb.[2]
89 settlements with 2,666 households were recorded of which:[3]
- 3 Albanian settlements (3,3%)
- 86 Serbian settlements (96,6%)
2,166 livestock households of 2,666 agricultural households:
- 44 Albanian households (2%)
- 2,122 Serbian households (98%)
References
- ↑ Srđan Šarkić (1996). Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo. Matica srpska. p. 66.
- ↑ Milica Grković, 2004, First charter of Dečani: Dečanski hrisovulja ili raskošni svitak, Zbornik Matice srpske za književnost i jezik, vol. 52, iss. 3, pp. 623-626
- ↑ Pavle Ivić and Milica Grković, 1976, Dečanske hrisovulje, Institute of Linguistics (Novi Sad), (Serbo-Croatian)