The Nemanje dynasty has given Serbia masterpieces of religious art combining Western, imperial Greek, and local styles.

The Nemanjic state under Dushan's reign has reached its greatest extent, incorporating Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia, all of modern Albania and Montenegro, a substantial part of eastern Bosnia, and modern Serbia as far north as the Danube.

Dushan has very nearly realized his ambition to found a new Serbo-Greek empire.

During the course of his entire reign, Dushan has remained on the defensive in the north, although he has succeeded in preventing Hungary from extending its boundaries south of the fortresses on the Save and Danube rivers.

He is the only man who might be able to prevent the rapid expansion of the Turks into the Balkans, but he dies on December 20, 1354, at forty-seven.