{SERBIA_INITIAL_SUPPORT_TITLE}Money from the Believers!
{SERBIA_INITIAL_SUPPORT_BODY}\n\nMy Lord! The loyal bishops of the Orthodox Church have collected funds to support your military efforts! Large number of golden coins has just arrived, you may see them in your treasury!\n\nNote that this is only a temporary relif: after you take a few settlements, the Orthodox clergy will be unwilling to pay for your glory.
{SERBIAN0_STARTING_INFO_BODY}\nThe principality of Raška, the first state to which Serbs attach a political identity, was created by Vlastimir in about 850. This state was centered on an area in what is now eastern Montenegro and southern Serbia known as Raška and extended over the valleys of the Piva, Tara, Lim, and Ibar rivers (or roughly between the Durmitor and Kopaonik mountain ranges). It was located in the Byzantine culture area and accepted distant supremacy of Constantinople for centuries. At times, it was under suzerainity of the Bulgarian khans.\nA stable and continuous state appeared in this area only under Stefan Nemanja in the middle of 12th century. Stefan assumed the throne of Raška in 1168, but he continued to acknowledge the supremacy of Byzantium until 1185. At that time he exploited the breakdown of the basileoi power and declared independence. In 1196, he abdicated in favour of his son Stefan (known as Prvovenčani, the “First-Crowned”), who in 1217 secured from Pope Honorius III the title of “king of Serbia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia.” Under the Nemanjić dynasty, which was to rule the Serb lands for the next 200 years, a powerful state emerged to dominate the entire Balkan Peninsula. It was based on the political vacuum in the area left by breakdown of Byzantium and limited power of Hungary and the Bulgarians, but also on the ability and administrative capacity of its rulers linked to the establishment of clerical structures of the increasingly independent church.
{SERBIAN0_STARTING_INFO_TITLE}Serbia in the Middle Ages
{SERBIAN1_REFORMS_INFO_BODY}\n\nSerbian reforms are not fully implemented yet and the faction plays quite similar to how it was in SSHIP 0.92 or 0.97. A few new mechanisms are implemented and you will see them in game, they are usually triggered autonomously - in such a situation a pop-out window will inform you about their effects. However, you should bear in mind that Petrova Crkva in Ras is an essential building for the faction as it adds to the recruitment pools, allows recruiting diplomats and priests. It also allows your Faction Leader to be crowned what may be useful in the event he is eligible for crowning based on his deeds, no on the territory he rules (in this case, the faction owns also Constantinople, where any Orthodox ruler can be crowned).
{SERBIAN1_REFORMS_INFO_TITLE}Serbian Reforms
{SERBIAN2_NEMANJA_STATE_BODY}\nNemanjić was the most prominent dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. The princely, royal, and imperial house produced twelve Serbian monarchs, who ruled between 1166 and 1371. Its progenitor was Stefan Nemanja, scion of a cadet branch of the Vukanović dynasty (1101–1166). After Nemanja, all monarchs used Stefan as a personal name, or a ruler's name, a tradition adopted for the royal pretensions. The monarchs began as Grand Princes, and with the crowning of Stefan Nemanjić in 1217, the realm was promoted to a Kingdom, and the Serbian Orthodox Church was established in 1219. In 1346, Stefan Dušan was crowned Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks, and the Archbishopric of Serbia was elevated to a Patriarchate.\n\nGAME STRATEGY: A few game parameters will change into better. However, the conquest of even close provices will spark objections from the other factions and own people (ie aggressivitiy will increase).
{SERBIAN2_NEMANJA_STATE_TITLE}Nemanja Dynasty
{SERBIAN3_SAINT_SAVA_BODY}\nSveti Sava was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law, and a diplomat. Born as Rastko Nemanjić, he was the youngest son of Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja. He ruled the appanage of Zachlumia in 1190–92, then he left for Mount Athos, where he became a monk with the name Sava (Sabbas). At Athos he established the monastery of Hilandar, which became one of the most important cultural and religious centres of the Serbian people. In 1219 the Patriarchate exiled in Nicea recognized him as the first Serbian Archbishop, and in the same year he authored the oldest known constitution of Serbia, the Zakonopravilo nomocanon, thus securing full independence; both religious and political. Sava is regarded as the founder of Serbian medieval literature. \n\nGAME STRATEGY:
{SERBIAN3_SAINT_SAVA_TITLE}Saint Sava
{SERBIAN4_DUSAN_EMPIRE_BODY}\nIn second part of 13th century the primary frontier of Nemanjić expansion lay to the south. Power was seized and consolidated through opportunities offered by a weak Constantinople, and the kingdom extended its authority over an assortment of peoples. Skopje in Macedonia was taken in 1282 by Stefan Uroš II and became the Serb capital. Under the reign of Stefan Dušan (1331–55), the Nemanjić state reached its greatest extent, incorporating Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia, all of modern Albania and Montenegro, a substantial part of eastern Bosnia, and modern Serbia as far north as the Danube. Dušan adopted the title of emperor at his coronation in Skopje in 1346 (later “emperor and autocrat of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Albanians”), but he is more commonly remembered by Serbs as Dušan Silni, or “Dušan the Mighty.” \n\nGAME STRATEGY:
{SERBIAN4_DUSAN_EMPIRE_TITLE}Stefan Dusan Empire
{SERBIAN5_WESTERN_INFLUENCES_BODY}\n\n to be drafted.
{SERBIAN5_WESTERN_INFLUENCES_TITLE}Influences of Western Military Culture in Serbia
{SERBIAN6_BRANKOVIC_LAST_STAND_BODY}\n\n to be drafted.
{SERBIAN6_BRANKOVIC_LAST_STAND_TITLE}Brankovic Last Stand