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What was Serbia's status under Dušan's rule?

  • A small regional kingdom

  • An Eastern Orthodox multi-ethnic and multilingual empire

  • A Catholic multinational empire

  • A dependent territory of Byzantine Empire

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Serbia was an Eastern Orthodox multi-ethnic and multilingual empire under the rule of Emperor Stefan Dušan (1331–1355). Dušan was the first ruler to unite the Serbian lands into a single state, and his empire expanded to include large parts of modern-day Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, and Greece.
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