Welcome to Prokuplje !!!
Serbian town Prokuplje has a total population of 27,163 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the Toplica District and one of the Roman sites of Serbia. It was a kaza center in Niş sanjak as "Ürgüp" during the Ottoman rule. Therefore it was incorporated in Kingdom of Serbia in 1878.
From 1395 AD dates the first written document about today’s town name, when the Duchess Milica gave as a present two houses and some belongings from the town of St. Prokopius to St. Panteleimon monastery on holy Mount Athos in Greece. Present name of the town of Prokuplje was first seen in use after the replacement of St. Prokopius' relics from Nis, in 1396 A.D.
Prokuplje is not mentioned in any written documents during the rule of Stefan Nemanja, in the early middle ages. But it gain its importance in Tsar Lazar's period, before the Turkish invasion, when the fortress on Hisar Hill was rebuilt. Prokuplje was besieged in 1454. For about 423 years of Turkish rule the name of the place was Urcub or Okrub.
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