The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)

by Herbert Adams Gibbons

[170] J. Schafarik, Elenchus actorum spectantium ad historiam Serborum, XXV-XXVII.

[171] I find no documentary authority for the often repeated statement that this coronation took place at Skoplje (Uskub or Scopia). At the time of the recent Balkan War, the Serbians, in order to preserve their friendly relations with Greece, supported the Uskub theory. But see Ljubić, Monumenta spectantia ad hist. Slavorum meridionalium, ii. 278, 279, 326; Commemorialia, IV; Secreta Rog., A. 33.

[172] ‘Stephanus, D. G. Serviae ... Albaniae, maritimae regionis rex, Bulgariae imperii princeps et fere totius imperii Romaniae dominus’: Ljubić, ii. 278.

[173] Ibid., ii. 326.

[174] Ibid., loc. cit.

[175] Secr. Rog., A. 33.

[176] Misti, xxiv. 12.

[177] Ibid., xxiv. 110.

[178] Secr. Rog., II, B. 4; Misti, xxiv. 103.

[179] Cf. Misti, xxv. 7, 10. Fiorinsky, The South Slavs and Byzantium in the second quarter of the Fourteenth Century, quoted by Borchgrave in Bulletin de l’Académie royale de Belgique for 1884, 8^e série, iv. 429-30.