Dmitar Nemanjić

Dmitar Nemanjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дмитар Немањић, d. after 1286), also known as Dimitrije Nemanjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Немањић), was a Serbian prince, from the Nemanjić dynasty. He was the son of grand prince Vukan Nemanjić and the nephew of king Stefan the First-Crowned. Dmitar was župan (count) in the region of Polimlje, where he built the Davidovica Monastery, near Brodarevo in modern Serbia. In his later days he became a monk, and took the name David. In the Serbian Orthodox Church, he is venerated as Saint David Nemanjić with the title of the Venerable (sr. Prepodobni).

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