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The Dobrun Monastery () is located in
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
, 12 km away from town of
Višegrad Višegrad ( sr-cyrl, Вишеград, ) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It rests at the confluence of the Drina and the Rzav (Drina), Rzav river. As of 2013, the municipality has a population of 10,668 in ...
, in the gorge of the Rzav river near the border with
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. Dobrun Monastery is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin and was built in 1343 by Duke
Pribil }, fl. 1370s) was a Serbian ''župan'' (count) who built the Dobrun Monastery in Dobrun, Višegrad, Dobrun, Višegrad, as a family funeral church. He founded the church together with his sons, župan Petar and župan Stefan. There are frescoes of th ...
and his sons Stefan and Petar.


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Buildings and structures completed in 1343 Christian monasteries established in the 1340s Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina Buildings and structures in Republika Srpska Dormition of the Mother of God {{Orthodox-monastery-stub