Dušan's Code (Zakonik)
Código de Dušan (Zakonik)
- Date
- 1349-1354 · confidence high
- Place
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Credited to
- Tsar Stefan Dušan of Serbia
- People
- 👤 Esteban Dušan1308–1355
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A legal compilation promulgated in Skopje (1349) and extended at Serres (1354) that regulates property, justice, the Church and serfs. It is the largest medieval legal code of the Serbs and a landmark of South Slavic law.
Included as institutional technology. The 1354 version was extended at Serres (today in Greece) and the best-known copies are later (15th-16th centuries).
What it led to
- legal framework of the Serbian empire and a model for later codes
- reception of Byzantine and mining rules in Serbian law