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Serbian Despotate Српска Деспотовина Srpska Despotovina | |||||||||||||||||
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Common languages | Old Serbian | ||||||||||||||||
Religion | Serbian Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Serbian, Serb | ||||||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||
Despot | |||||||||||||||||
• 1402–1427 | Stefan Lazarević | ||||||||||||||||
• 1427–1456 | Đurađ Branković | ||||||||||||||||
• 1456–1458 | Lazar Branković | ||||||||||||||||
• 1458–1459 | Stefan Branković | ||||||||||||||||
• 1459 | Stefan Tomašević | ||||||||||||||||
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Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||
• Establishment | 22 February 1402 | ||||||||||||||||
• Conquest by the Ottoman Empire | 1439 | ||||||||||||||||
• Reestablishment | 1444 | ||||||||||||||||
• Reconquest by the Ottoman Empire | 20 June 1459 | ||||||||||||||||
Currency | Serbian dinar | ||||||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | RS | ||||||||||||||||
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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 the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 is mistakenly considered the end of medieval Serbia, the Despotate, a successor of the Serbian Empire and Moravian Serbia, lasted for another sixty years, experiencing a cultural, economic, and political renaissance, especially during the reign of Despot Stefan Lazarević. After the death of Despot Đurađ Branković in 1456, the Despotate continued to exist for another three years before it finally fell under Ottoman rule in 1459.
After 1459, political traditions of the Serbian Despotate continued to exist in exile, in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, with several titular despots of Serbia, who were appointed by kings of Hungary. The last titular Despot of Serbia was Pavle Bakić, who fell in the Battle of Gorjani in 1537.[1]