Gracanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Pristina in Kosovo, built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin on the site of an earlier church. It is noted for its architecture, with a central dome surrounded by smaller domes in a style typical of the late Byzantine and Serbian tradition, and for its frescoes from the early fourteenth century, which are among the finest of the Palaiologan era. The monastery survived the Ottoman period, and was a centre of religious and cultural life for Serbs. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, and it has been protected by international forces because of tensions in the region.
Before and after
- from 1309 to 1377Avignon Papacy
- 1310Rise of ars nova
- 13 November 1312Birth of Edward III of England
- 1313Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio
- 1315Origins of Gračanica monastery
- from 1315 to 1317Great Famine of 1315–1317
- from 1320 to 1413Tughlaq dynasty
- 1320The Divine Comedy
- from 1321 to 1328Byzantine Civil War of 1321–1328
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- 1460Construction of Topkapı Palace
The era
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