Also known as Dečani charter Place of origin Kingdom of Serbia Author(s) | Date 1330 Language(s) Old Serbian Dedicated to Visoki Dečani | |
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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.
Demographics
The first charter concludes that the region was ethnically Serb.
89 settlements with 2,666 households were recorded of which:
2,166 livestock households of 2,666 agricultural households:
References
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