Maps of Power

Mraka

Мрака

Properties

ID	131044
System Class	Place
Place	Region
Case Study	Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355) , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16
Evidence	History , Charter , Historiography
Historical place	Serbian Empire , Second Bulgarian Empire , Kingdom of Serbia
Administrative unit	Bulgaria

Description

After the battle of Velbužd on 28 July 1330 the Serbian King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski (reigned 1321-1331) advanced towards the region of Mraka (na město glagolěmo Mraku). Mraka was a border zone between the Serbian and the Bulgarian realms. It is mentioned in the charter of King Stefan Dečanski for the Monastery of Saint Nikola Mrački (Pešterski manastir), which was issued in the year 1330 (otь Mraku). The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan (reigned 1331-1355) confirmed the possessions of the Monastery of Hilandar in April 1348, among them also the Monastery of Saint Nikola in Mraka (crьkovь na Mracě svety Nikolae).

literature

Daničić 1866 — 192 and seq. , Hafner 1976 — 236 , Ireček 1974 — map , Ivanov 1931 — 613 and seq., 617 , Mišić 2002a — 58 , Mišić/Koprivica 2015c — 70, [114] , Mladjov 2010 — 149-153 , Taseva 1998 — 228 and seq. , ZakSpom — 422, 644

Relations

Sources (2)

Name	Class	Description
Charter of Stefan Uroš III Dečanski for the Monastery of Sv. Nikola in Orehovo	Source	On 9 September 1330 the Serbian King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski (reigned 1322-1331) issued a Slavonic charter for the Monastery of Sv. Nikola in Orehovo. Therein, he reports that he had refurbished the monastery. Moreover, the Serbian King confirmed existing possesions of the monastery and donated to the monastery new privileges and landed property in the vicinity of Sofia and the upper valley of the river Struma.
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan's General Charter for the Monastery of Hilandar	Source	The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan's issued the so-called "General Charter (Opšta hrisovulja)" to the Monastery of Hilandar, through which he confirmed all previous donations and records of the land-inventory of the monastery. Although the charter bears the date 1348, it is with the utmost probability not an original. Lidija Slaveva considers the charter to be a copy that was written after the year 1365.