Dečani chrysobulls
| Charter of Dečani | |
|---|---|
Original first page | |
| Also known as | Dečani charter |
| Date | 1330 |
| Place of origin | Kingdom of Serbia |
| Language(s) | Old Serbian |
| Author(s) | Stefan Uroš III |
| Dedicated to | Visoki Dečani |
| Exemplar(s) | Archive of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
The Dečani chrysobulls (Serbian: Дечанске хрисовуље, Dečanske hrisovulje) alternatively known as the Dečani charters (Serbian: Дечанске повеље, Dečanske povelje) are chrysobulls dating to 1330–1345 that constitute the founding charters issued by the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski after the building of the monastery of Visoki Dečani was completed, in 1330. In particular, the charters contain a detailed list of landholdings and tax farming rights which the monastery held over settlements and communities in the Kingdom of Serbia, in an area which spanned from present-day southern Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and parts of northern Albania.