The Monument to Despot Stefan Lazarević (Спомен обележје Деспоту Стефану Лазаревићу) is located in the village of Crkvine by Mladenovac

Mladenovac

Mladenovac is a town and municipality located in Serbia at 44.43° North, 20.70° East. Mladenovac is one of Belgrade's 17 municipalities. In 2003 the town had total population of 22,200.-Name:...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, in courtyard

Courtyard

A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....

 of the church of St. prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

 Elijah. That is marble

Marble

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 monument

Monument

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 with medieval

Middle Ages

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 record on death

Death

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 of Despot Stefan Lazarević

Stefan Lazarevic

Stefan Lazarević known also as Stevan the Tall was a Serbian Despot, ruler of the Serbian Despotate between 1389 and 1427. He was the son and heir to Prince Lazar, who died at the Battle of Kosovo against the Turks in 1389, and Princess Milica from the subordinate branch of the Nemanjić dynasty...

. The monument was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance

Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)

Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance are the monuments in the Republic of Serbia that have the highest level of the State protection, and some of them are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites....

 in 1979, and it is now protected by Republic of Serbia. The monument is in the form of column

Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...

, created from glazed white marble, height 186 cm, width 68 cm, and a thickness of 26 cm. The largest, main inscription is written in calligraphic

Calligraphy

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 letters, on the west side of monument, below ingraved three-sided cross

Cross

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. Monument was raised by his companion Đurađ Zubrović immediately after the death of Despot Stefan, in 1427.

Writings on the monument are:

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See also

• Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance
  Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
  Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance are the monuments in the Republic of Serbia that have the highest level of the State protection, and some of them are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites....
  
  
• Tourism in Serbia
  Tourism in Serbia
  Serbia stretches across two geographic and cultural regions of Europe: Central Europe and Southeast Europe. This boundary splits Serbia roughly in a ratio of 1:2 alongside the Danube and Sava rivers. The northern parts of the country are Central-European lowlands while the southern and central...
  
  
• Stefan Lazarević
  Stefan Lazarevic
  Stefan Lazarević known also as Stevan the Tall was a Serbian Despot, ruler of the Serbian Despotate between 1389 and 1427. He was the son and heir to Prince Lazar, who died at the Battle of Kosovo against the Turks in 1389, and Princess Milica from the subordinate branch of the Nemanjić dynasty...
  
  

External links

• Spomen obeležje Despotu Stefanu Lazareviću SANU web-site, at www.spomenicikulture.mi.sanu.ac.rs