Dečani chrysobulls

Charter of Dečani
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

  1. ↑ Srđan Šarkić (1996). Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo. Matica srpska. p. 66.
  2. ↑ Milica Grković, 2004, First charter of Dečani: Dečanski hrisovulja ili raskošni svitak Archived 2011-08-26 at the Wayback Machine., Zbornik Matice srpske za književnost i jezik, vol. 52, iss. 3, pp. 623-626
  3. ↑ Pavle Ivić and Milica Grković, 1976, Dečanske hrisovulje, Institute of Linguistics (Novi Sad), (Serbo-Croatian)

Sources

  • Ivić, Pavle; Grković, Milica (1976). "Dečanske hrisovulje". Institut za lingvistiku u Novom Sadu.
  • Šarkić, Srđan (1996). Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo [Medieval Serbian law]. Matica srpska. (in Serbian)
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