What the records say
- When
- 27 Apr 1594
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 44.82° N, 20.46° E
- Description
- After suppressing the Serbian uprising in Banat, the Ottoman Empire rulers carry out the public burning of the bones of Saint Sava in Belgrade.
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Belgrade.
Burning of Saint Sava's relics
1594 Ottoman retaliation against a Serb uprising
When the Serbs in Banat rose up against the Ottomans in 1594, using the portrait of Saint Sava on their war flags, the Ottomans retaliated by incinerating the relics of St. Sava on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade.
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