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[German Version] The Serbian monasteries are intimately associated with the history of Serbia, its piety and culture, its spiritual, intellectual, and even political development. Stefan Nemanja, the patriarch of the Nemanjić dynasty (1166–1371), became a monk (Simeon) after his abdication in 1197, entering the Studenica Monastery, which he founded. In 1198 he and his son Rastko (Sava, the national saint of Serbia), who had retreated to Athos in 1191/1192 at the age of 17, succeeded in acquiring an…