 His code of law, or "Zakonik", proclaimed the equality of Serbs and Greeks in all his dominions and confirmed the privileges bestowed on Greek cities by Byzantine Emperors of the past whom Dušan was pleased to regard as his imperial predecessors.His administrators were adorned with the Byzantine titles of Despot, Caesar and "sebastokrator" and his court was a model of that in Constantinople.He minted a silver coinage in the Byzantine style; and churches and monasteries in the Slav as well as the Greek provinces of his empire were decorated by artists of the best Byzantine school."