Stefan Dušan crowned Tsar at Skopje

1345

On Easter Sunday in his Macedonian capital, the Serbian king proclaimed himself emperor of Serbs and Romans, the first Slavic ruler to claim such a title since Symeon of Bulgaria four centuries earlier. He elevated the archbishopric of Pec to a patriarchate to perform the coronation, infuriating Constantinople and widening the schism between Serbian and Greek Orthodoxy.