KRUSHEVATS (or KRUSEVAC)  , a town of Servia, lying in a fertile region of hills and dales near the right bank of the Servian Morava . Pop . (1900), about 1o,000 . Krushevats is the capital of a department bearing the same name, and has an active trade in tobacco, hemp, flax, grain and livestock, for the sale of which it possesses about a dozen markets . It was in Krushevats that the last Servian tsar, Lazar, assembled his army to march against the Turks, and lose his empire, at Kosovo, in 1389 . The site of his palace is marked by a ruined enclosure containing a fragment of the tower of Queen Militsa, whither, according to legend, tidings of the defeat were brought her by crows from the battlefield . Within the enclosure stands a church, dating from the reign of Stephen Dushan (1336—1356), with beautiful rose windows and with imperial peacocks, dragons and eagles sculptured on the walls . Several old Turkish houses were left at the beginning of the 20th century, besides an ancient Turkish fountain and bath .