History of Aleksinac

tyle="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">During the reigns of emperors Phocas (602-610) and Heraclius (610-641) Slavic peoples inhabit Balkan peninsula. In 614 they razed Niš. The Via Militaris was renamed Medieval Military Road and it was used by the crusaders of first four Crusades to reach Constantinople thus passing through the territory of Aleksinac municipality.

During the reign of the Nemanjić dynasty this territory was under direct control of the state. After the death of Uroš V this territory was included in the territory of Moravian Serbiaunder the Prince Lazar and his successors. Two medieval towns, Bolvan and Lipovac, date from this period.

Turkish rule

Aleksinac is first mentioned in 1516 in "KruševačkiTefter", a list of towns and its residents were made by Turks to keep an eye on taxes, as the village belonging to Bolvan province and Kruševac sanjak. It