lake cellia Serbia... it is located in the southern part of Serbia, in Krusevac.. Krusevac is an imperial city... the city of Emperor Dusan the Great...
Dušan conquered a large part of southeast Europe, becoming one of the most powerful monarchs of the era. Under Dušan's rule, Serbia was the most powerful state in Southeast Europe, one of the most powerful European states and an Eastern Orthodox multi-ethnic and multilingual empire that stretched from the Danube in the north to the Gulf of Corinth in the south, with its capital in Skopje. He enacted the constitution of the Serbian Empire, known as Dušan's Code, perhaps the most important literary work of medieval Serbia. Dušan promoted the Serbian Church from an archbishopric to a patriarchate, finished the construction of the Visoki Dečani Monastery (now a UNESCO site), and founded the monastery of the Holy Archangels, among others. Under his rule, Serbia reached its territorial, political, economic, and cultural peak.
After Dušan's sudden death in 1355, the empire began to weaken. With the death of Dušan's successor, emperor Stefan Uroš V, the Serbian Empire was definitively divided into a large number of independent Serbian states, among which the Serbian Despotate will stand out as the most prominent under the rule of Lazarević dynasty.
Krusevac city and the administrative center of the Rasina District in central Serbia. It is located in the valley of West Morava, on Rasina river. According to the 2022 census, the city administrative area has a population of 113,582 while the urban area has 68,119 inhabitants.
The old Serbian capital Kruševac has come a long way from the medieval fortification it once was - once the nation’s capital, then a prosperous town and right through to the modern city that it is today.Surrounded by mountains and spa resorts, Kruševac offers its visitors opportunities to experience an active holiday or enjoy a relaxing visit to unwind.The city’s residents are also known as “čarapani” (literally “people in socks”), a nickname that has stuck with them since 1806. The explanation? In the final battles for the liberation of Kruševac in the First Serbian Uprising, a company from Kruševac managed to sneak into the town silently, “in socks”, and overpower the Turkish soldiers in the fortress.
The City
When Serbian Prince Lazar chose Kruševac as the place from which to defend medieval Serbia from Ottoman invaders, only a small settlement stood in this spot. The Prince soon reinforced the walls, built a city and made it his capital.Remains of the walls and towers of the medieval fortress can be seen at the archaeological site in Lazar’s Town in Kruševac. It was from this city that Prince Lazar led the Serbian army to the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 to defend his country from the rapidly approaching Turkish army. A monument in the main square of Kruševac commemorates the Battle of Kosovo.
