Stefan Dušan

Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, called Dušan the Mighty (about 1308 to 1355), was King of Serbia from 1331 and Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians from 1346 until his death. He is considered one of the greatest medieval Balkan conquerors, and under him Serbia reached its territorial, political, economic and cultural peak, stretching from the Danube to the Gulf of Corinth with its capital at Skopje. As a lawgiver he enacted the constitution of the Serbian Empire, known as Dušan's Code, which the source calls perhaps the most important literary work of medieval Serbia. He also raised the Serbian Church from an archbishopric to a patriarchate and completed the Visoki Decani Monastery.