Coronation of the Serbian monarch

The accession of the Serbian monarch was legitimised by a coronation ceremony, which was carried out by church officials.

[1] The successors of Stefan Nemanja adopted Byzantine ideas on self-rule and acts on the ruler's anointment and coronation.

[9] Serbia's last and only modern coronation was in 1904, when King Peter I was crowned in an Eastern Orthodox Christian ceremony at the Cathedral of the Host of Holy Archangels in Belgrade.

[4] Later, it was called "the god-gifted wreath of the Serbian kingdom" (bogodarovani venac kraljevstva srpskog).

The crown, scepter, and orb were decorated with gemstones extracted in Serbia and enameled in the Serbian national colours (red, blue, and white).

"The Coronation of the King of Serbia at Belgrade", The Illustrated London News (15 October 1904).
The Coronation of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan as East Roman Emperor , part of the Slav Epic series by Alfons Mucha , 1926.