Serbian folk heroes

There are several individuals regarded Serbian folk heroes. Most of them were medieval people, enumerated in Serbian epic poetry. The list includes:

• Lazar of Serbia (1329–1389), ruler, fell at the Battle of Kosovo (1389).^[1][2]
• Miloš Obilić (d. 1389), knight, killed Ottoman Sultan Murad I at Kosovo (1389).^[3][4]
• Prince Marko (1335–1395), prince, active during the fall of the Serbian Empire.^[5][6]
• Karađorđe (1768–1817), leader of the Serbian Revolution.^[7]

• 
  Lazar
• 
  Miloš Obilić
• 
  Marko
• 
  Karađorđe

See also

• Symbols of Serbia
• National founders of Serbia

References

1. Czesław Robotycki (2003). Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in Central Europe: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethnic and National Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, May 11-16, 2000. UJ. p. 90. ISBN 978-83-233-1774-6.
2. Charlie T. McCormick; Kim Kennedy White (2011). Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. ABC-CLIO. p. 809. ISBN 978-1-59884-241-8.
3. Tanya Popovic (1988). Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics. Syracuse University Press. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-0-8156-2444-8.
4. Wes Johnson (2007). Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War and Intervention, 1990-2005. Enigma Books. p. 469. ISBN 978-1-929631-63-6.
5. Tanya Popovic (1988). Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2444-8.
6. Velma Bourgeois Richmond (17 September 2014). Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature: Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures. McFarland. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-4766-1735-0.
7. Danielle S. Sremac (1999). War of Words: Washington Tackles the Yugoslav Conflict. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-275-96609-6.