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    The Serbian Despotate (Serbian: Српска деспотовина / Srpska despotovina) was a medieval Serbian state in the first half of the 15th century. Although...
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    regions of Serbia making them the last suzerain rulers of medieval Serbia. The dynasty ruled the Serbian Despotate from 1427 to 1459. In 1918, Serbia became...
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  • Serbian Empire Battle of Maritsa in September 1371 Battle of Dubravnica in 1381 Battle of Pločnik in 1386 Battle of Kosovo in 1389 Serbian Despotate Battle...
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    before it became the seat of the Serbian king Stefan Dragutin in 1284. Belgrade served as capital of the Serbian Despotate during the reign of Stefan Lazarević...
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    notably the Despotate of Epirus, the Despotate of the Morea, the Despotate of Dobruja and the Serbian Despotate. In modern usage, the word has taken a...
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    full conquest of the Serbian Despotate by the Ottomans, also symbolically signified the end of the Serbian state. In all Serbian lands conquered by the...
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    the largest and most powerful Serbian principality to emerge from the ruins of the Serbian Empire (1371). Moravian Serbia was named after Morava, the main...
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    of the fall of the medieval Serbian state. The magnate families Lazarević and Branković ruled the suzerain Serbian Despotate afterwards (in the 15th and...
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  • on the field. There is certainly little to indicate that it was a great Serbian defeat; and the earliest reports of the conflict suggest, on the contrary...
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    Smederevo Fortress during his fourth Serbian campaign. At the beginning of 1458, the Serbian question re-emerged and the Serbs were divided over the solution...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Despotate of Epirus. The Despotate of Epirus (Medieval Greek: Δεσποτᾶτον τῆς Ἠπείρου) was one of the Greek successor...
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    century, the Serbian Despotate was conquered by the Ottoman Empire as part of the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. The Ottomans defeated the Serbs at the Battle...
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    archbishops and patriarchs that led the Serbian Orthodox Church under the Serbian Archbishopric and Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. Today, the church is...
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    Branković dynasty (category Articles containing Serbian-language text)
    unconquered regions of Serbia making them the last sovereign rulers of medieval Serbian state. The dynasty ruled the Serbian Despotate from 1427 to 1459 and...
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    Uroš V, the Serbian Empire was definitively divided into a large number of independent Serbian states, among which the Serbian Despotate will stand out...
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    The Serbian eagle (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски орао, romanized: Srpski orao) is a double-headed heraldic eagle, also known as the White eagle (Serbian Cyrillic:...
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  • 1486–1492) Serbian Despotate, by Virgil Solis (1555) Serbian Despotate, by Christoph Silberysen (1576) Serbian Despotate, by Martin Schrott (c. 1580) Serbian Despotate...
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    Ελένη Παλαιολογίνα; Serbian: Јелена Палеолог/Jelena Paleolog; 1431 – 7 November 1473) was a Byzantine princess who married Serbian Despot Lazar Branković...
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    Battle of Užice (category History of Serbia)
    significant development in the history of the Despotate of Serbia. Since Helena did not want the Serbian people to be under the command of the Catholic...
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    Bulgarian Empire under the command of Ivan Shishman, and the Macedonian-Serbian Despotate under the command of Uglješa Mrnjavčević. Ottoman Turks headed to...
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    of a "Serbian dinar" dates back to the reign of Stefan Nemanjić in 1214. Until the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459, most of the Serbian rulers...
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    modern Central Serbia had accepted nominal Ottoman rule. Lazar was succeeded by his son, Stefan Lazarević, who ruled the rump Serbian Despotate, which finally...
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    Sanjak of Smederevo (category CS1 Serbian-language sources (sr))
    of Vidin. The Sanjak of Smederevo was formed after the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459, and its administrative seat was Smederevo. Ottoman sources...
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    The Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern...
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    Montenegro (category CS1 Serbian-language sources (sr))
    known by that name in the historical period following the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459. Originally, it had referred to only a small strip of land...
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    one of the most notable events of Serbian history. Afterwards, it was a part of the Serbian Despotate. Modern Serbian historiography considers Kosovo in...
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    for money. The mint in Novo Brdo, a fortified mining town in the Serbian Despotate rich with gold and silver mines, began to strike akçe in 1441 when...
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    Mahmud Pasha Angelović (category Articles containing Serbian-language text)
    Turkish poems under the pseudonym Adni (the "Eden-like"). Born in the Serbian Despotate, he was a descendant of the Byzantine Angelos family that had left...
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    Stefan Lazarević (category CS1 Serbian-language sources (sr))
    Stefan Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Лазаревић, c. 1377 – 19 July 1427), also known as Stefan the Tall (Serbian: Стефан Високи, romanized: Stefan...
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    Siege of Novo Brdo (1440–1441) (category Serbian Despotate)
    blockade of Novo Brdo, an important fortified mining town in the Serbian Despotate, by the forces of the Ottoman Empire. The siege began in 1440 and...
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