Kruševac is a city located in the Republic of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro at 43.58° North, 21.32° East. Its name stems from the word for "bread" in Serbian. According to the 2002 census it had a population of 59,371. It is the administrative center of the Kruševac municipality and of the Rasina District of Serbia. A commercial center, it has a hydroelectric plant and an important chemical industry. The seat of the kings of Serbia until 1389, it has retained the ruins of a medieval castle. The medieval city of Krusevac was founded by the Prince Lazar, between 1371 and 1377. It was the capital of Serbia till 1402. Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic (1329 – June 28, 1389), also known as "Tsar Lazar", was a Serbian noble who fought and perished at the Battle of Kosovo, to which his name and life are inextricably tied. He is a mythical figure in Serbia, and a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

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Lazar was born in Prilepac in 1329, the son of a minor vlastelin (noble). He was educated at Tsar Dusan's court in Prizren, where he later held the office of "stavilac". He was later promoted to knez by Dusan's successor Tsar Uros. Despite his imperial title, Uros was a weak and ineffectual leader, allowing local nobles to gain power and influence at the expense of the central authority. Lazar left Prizren in the early 1370s, and devoted himself to the consolidation of his power in the northern Serbian regions around his court in Krusevac.

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