Kesar Novak
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Kesar Novak ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Кесар Новак}}) was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman that held the region of Lake Prespa during the Serbian Empire of Uroš the Weak (r. 1355–1371).
Biography
Novak held the title of Caesar, and is hence also known as Kesar Novak.Macedonia, by T R Georgevitch, page [https://books.google.com/books?id=oWP-MqFNuVIC&pg=PA47 p. 47] He had a Greek wife, Kali, with whom he had a daughter Marija (Maria) and a son Amiral (Amiralis).Tania Velmans, page 178
Among his endowments are the cave-church of Bogorodica (Holy Virgin Eleusa[https://books.google.com/books?id=z80LAQAAMAAJ Scripta & e-scripta], Vol 5, page 196) on the island of Maligrad where frescoes and Greek inscriptions of his family exist dating to 1369.Jirecek, Geschichte, I, 1-33
References
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Sources
- [http://www.rastko.rs/projekti/cm/1/vpetkovic-spomenici_l.html Stari srpski spomenici u Južnoj Srbiji], Dr Vlad. R. Petković, 1924
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=NXFpAAAAMAAJ The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his successors], by George Christos Soulis, page 214-5
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006154644/http://www.ni.rs/byzantium/doc/zbornik4/PDF-IV/Zure.pdf Гоце Ангеличин - Жура]
- Ivan M. Đorđević, Zidno slikarstvo srpske vlastele u doba Nemanjića (Wall-Paintings of the Serbian Nobility of the Nemanide Era) OCLC [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34957313?tab=details 34957313], sl. 84 i 85
- Tania Velmans, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IRnrAAAAMAAJ La Peinture murale byzantine à la fin du Moyen âge, Volume 1]
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Category:14th-century Serbian nobility
Category:People from the Serbian Empire