All names of Nemanjić monarchs started with Stefan, beginning from Stefan Nemanja.
Entries bounded within parentheses are for reference only, for instance the Roman numerals keep counts of Stefan's and Lazar's. They are not part of the common nomenclature.
All i's in parentheses of the house names are part of the transliteration from the Serbian words but frequently omitted in western texts
Vlastimirović Dynasty or House of Vlastimirović(i) (ca. 640 - ca. 950)
Unknown archont/knez (prince), died in 680, lead Serbs to the Balkans during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610-41),
Svevlad (different dynasty?), ruled up to 660
Selimir (different dynasty?), ruled 679-680
Vladin, ruled up to 700
Ratimir, ruled until 730
Knez Višeslav (great grandson of unknown archont/knez who died in 680), around 780
Knez Radoslav (son of Višeslav)
Knez Prosigoj (son of Radoslav)
Knez Vlastimir (son of Prosigoj) ruled around 850 or only up to 825 according to some, founder of Vlastimirović dynasty. Vlastimir had three sons and one daughter. His daughter married knez Krajina, son of Beloje, župan of Travunija (Trabounia). Each son had his own domain, but Mutimir the eldest was the supreme ruler, his two brothers being subjugated (vassals) to him. The brothers successfully fought off a Bulgar onslaught by khan Boris in 852. Later, the two youngest brother rebelled against Mutimir who as a punishment let Bulgar khan Boris subjugate them.
Knez Mutimir ruled from the second half of 9th century to his death in 891 or 892
Strojimir (vassal to elder brother Mutimir, later under Bulgar khan Boris)
Gojnik (vassal to brother Mutimir, later under khan Boris)
Knez Pribislav (son of Mutimir), born latest 867, ruled 891/2-892/3
Bran (Boren) (younger brother of Pribislav, son of Mutimir), born by 867, pretender to the thron 895/6
Stefan (youngest brother of Pribislav and Bran, son of Mutimir), born ca. 870
Knez Petar Gojniković (son of Gojnik, grandson of Vlastimir), born ca. 870, ruled 892/3-917/8, captured by Bulgars, died as their prisonner
Knez Pavle Branović (son of Bran/Boren, grandson of Mutimir), ruled 917/8-921, brought to the throne by the Bulgars, brought down by Byzantines
Knez Zaharije Pribisavljević (son of Pribislav, grandson of Mutimir), ruled 921-924 (brought to the throne by the Byzantines, removed by the Bulgars)
924-927 Serb throne held by Bulgars, period of Bulgar rule
Knez/Zupan Časlav Klonimirović (son of Klonimir, grandson of Strojimir), ruled 927/8-ca. 950: Liberated the central Serbian tribes from Bulgarian empire.
950-1050 Byzantine rule
Vojisavljević Dynasty or House of Vojislavljević(i) (ca 1050- ca 1160)
Grand Župan (possibly even king?) Mihajlo of Zeta (Michael) (1050/1155-1080), born after 1042: maintained Serb independence from Byzantine empire. Possibly received the title of king (and crown) from Pope Gregory VII though it is still an issue of debate.
King Konstantin Bodin, son of Mihajlo, ruled 1180-1101
King Dobroslav, younger brother of Konstantin Bodin
In 1918, Serbia became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Later that state changed name in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (i.e. Kingdom of South Slavs). In that period (between two world wars) the country was parliamentary monarchy nominally ruled by the Karadjordjevic dynasty.
After the WW2 and the socialist revolution the country was reformed as the socialist federation of 'republics' ruled by the Josip Broz Tito. After his death in 1980, the federation started a process of dissolution which finished in a series of civil wars in early 1990s. Through the 1990s, the Serbia and Montenegro comprised the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which recently (in 2003) has been restructured into confederation called Serbia and Montenegro. Currently Serbia is a parliamentary democracy.
The geneaology and coats of arms of Serbian dynasties and feudal lords (Родословне таблице и грбови српских династија и властеле); editors Aleksa Ivić (1928), Dusan Spasić, Aleksandar Plavestra and Dusan Mrdjenović (1987/91); Bata, Belgrade, ISBN 86-7685-007-0 (in Serbian language).
Serbian Rulers (Српски владари (http://www.srpski-kulturni-savez.ch/istorijat.htm))
The Republic of Serbia (in Serbian Србија or Srbija) is a republic in south-eastern Europe, which is united with Montenegro in a loose commonwealth known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Serbian Army bravely defended its country and won several major victories, but it was finally overpowered by the joint forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and had to withdraw from the national territory marching across the Albanian mountain ranges to the Adriatic Sea.
At the same time as the Serbian population declined, the Albanian population grew exponentially, from about 300,000– 400,000 in the 1930s, to an estimated 1.8–2 million in 2000, due to a combination of factors, mainly massive illegal immigration from Albania and a high birth rate when compared to the Serbian population.
In 1345 Stefan Uroš IV Dušan began to style himself "Emperor of Serbians and Greeks" (the Greek renderings read "emperor and autocrat of Serbians and Romans"), and was crowned as such in Skopje on Easter (April 16) 1346 by the newly created Serbian patriarch, alongside with the Bulgarian patriarch and the autocephalous archibishop of Ohrid.
The royal title was preserved by Vukašin, a Serbian ruler in Macedonia, who had been associated by Stefan Uroš V as king, but lapsed on the death of his son Marko in 1395.
Unlike Serbian, the title of king (Russian korol', Bulgarian kral) is perceived as alien and is reserved for (West) European royalty (and, by extension, for those modern monarchs outside of Europe whose titles are translated as king in English, roi in French etc.).
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