Leđan or Legen was an ancient, often described as magical, city from the Croatian mythology and folklore.1 It features in Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's Croatian Tales of Long Ago, a collection of Croatian fairy tales dramatised into short stories.
It also appears in Serbian folk stories and poetry, one example being the epic song "Ženidba Dušanova[1]" (Dušan's wedding), in which Serbian emperor Dušan takes king Mijail's daughter as a bride from Leđan2.
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- Maretić, Tomislav; Vladan Nedić (1966) [1909]. Naša narodna epika. Nolit. pp. 39–40. OCLC 1368666.
- "Женидба Душанова — Викизворник, слободна библиотека". sr.wikisource.org (in Serbian). Retrieved 2026-06-07.