Stefan Dušan crowned Tsar at Skopje
1345
On Easter Sunday in his Macedonian capital, the Serbian king proclaimed himself emperor of Serbs and Romans, the first Slavic ruler to claim such a title since Symeon of Bulgaria four centuries earlier. He elevated the archbishopric of Pec to a patriarchate to perform the coronation, infuriating Constantinople and widening the schism between Serbian and Greek Orthodoxy.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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