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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Belgrade (redirect from Capital of Serbia and Montenegro)
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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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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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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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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Despot (court title) (redirect from Despotate)
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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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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Stefan Dušan (redirect from Dushan of Serbia)
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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Siege of Smederevo (1459) (redirect from Fall of Serbian Despotate)
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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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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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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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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Grgur Branković (category 15th-century Serbian nobility)
In 1439, after the Ottomans captured Smederevo, the capital of the Serbian Despotate, they appointed Grgur as governor of his father's captured estates...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kingdom of Serbia (medieval) (1217–1345) Serbian Empire (1346–71) Moravian Serbia (1371–1402) Serbian Despotate (1402–1537) Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39)...
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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, at the time defended...
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Second Balkan War (redirect from Bulgarian-Serbian War (1913))
First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 (O.S.) / 29 (N.S.) June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive...
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Đurađ Branković (redirect from George Branković, Prince of Serbia)
Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђурађ Вуковић Бранковић; 1377 – 24 December 1456) was the Serbian Despot from 1427 to 1456. He was one of the last Serbian medieval...
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son, George, became new titular despot of the Serbian Despotate (1486). The territory of the Despotate had been under the Ottoman Empire since its collapse...
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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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