 Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski wrote that Sava was impressed with the mastery of local builders and invited them to build churches in Serbia.One of the earliest traces of Armenians in Serbia can be found at a monastery in the village of Vitovnica, near Petrovac.The monastery contains a marble slab with a bilingual inscription carved in both Church Slavonic and Armenian; the inscription dates back to 1218 C.E.