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Kesar Novak

Kesar Novak

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Novak the Serb (Srbin Novak) was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman that held the region of Lake Prespa during the Serbian Empire of Uroš the Weak (r. 1355–1371). He held the title of Caesar, and is hence also known as Kesar Novak.[1]

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He had a Greek wife, Kali, with whom he had a daughter Marija (Maria) and a son Amiral (Amiralis).[2]

Among his endowments are the cave-church of Bogorodica (Holy Virgin Eleusa[3]) on the island of Maligrad where frescoes and Greek inscriptions of his family exist dating to 1369.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Macedonia, by T R Georgevitch, page p. 47
  2. [2]
    Tania Velmans, page 178
  3. [3]
    Scripta & e-scripta, Vol 5, page 196
  4. [4]
    Jirecek, Geschichte , I, 1-33

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New title Caesar of Prespa
under Vukašin Mrnjavčević
fl. 1369		 Succeeded by
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