Gračanica Monastery
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The Gračanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Impo
View of the Gračanica Monastery
ktetor (founder) fresco with Stefan Milutin holding a model of the church, ca. 1321.
Gračanica painted fauvistically by Nadežda Petrović (1913).
Dormition of the Mother of God, fresco from Gračanica, c. 1321)
Stefan Milutin
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Stefan Uroš II Milutin, known posthumously as "the Holy King", was the King of Serbia between 1282–1321, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. He was one of the most powerful rulers of Serbia in the Middl
Gračanica Monastery
…romanized: Manastir Gračanica; Albanian: Manastiri i Graçanicës) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990 and in 2006 it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List…
King Milutin, founder's portrait (fresco) in King's Church of the Studenica Monastery, painted during his lifetime, around 1314
Young Milutin, fresco at Sopoćani
Victory of King Milutin over the Tatars (Mongols) (1853) by Anastas Jovanović
Novo Brdo Fortress was built by Stefan Milutin in 1285.