Raška (Raschka, Rascia, Rassa) was the central and most successful medievalSerbian state (or župa, area ruled by a župan) that unified neighboring Serbian tribes into the main medieval Serbian state in Balkans.
Raška (Raschka, Rascia, Rassa) was the central and most successful medievalSerbian state (or župa, area ruled by a župan) that unified neighboring Serbian tribes into the main medievalSerbian state in Balkans.
From the early 7th century, the history of Raska becomes intimately bound with the history of the Serb House of Vlastimirovic.
The present Raška is the area of south-central Serbia, in the Raska District of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Raska District expands in the south-western part of the Republic of Serbia.
This spiritual center of the Serbianmedieval state was built around 1220, to become also the center of newly founded Serbian Arch-episcopacy.
In the vicinity of Novi Pazar stands the Sopocani monastery, built around 1260 as the endowment of King Stephen Uros I, the son of King Stephen the First-Crowned.