Moravian Serbia

This article is about the specific polity Moravian Serbia and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was the most powerful of the serbian principalities that emerged from the dissolution of Serbia after the Battle of Maritsa.

Establishment

September 1371: After the Battle of Maritsa, Serbia fragmented into several successor states.

Chronology

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1. Dissolution of Serbia

Dissolution of Serbia after the Battle of Maritsa between the Ottoman Empire and Serbia.

2. Bulgarian-Ottoman Wars

Were a series of wars between the Ottomans and the Bulgarians that resulted in the Ottoman conquest of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

January 1387: After bitter fighting, in 1386 the Turks seized Pirot and Naissus.

January 1387: In 1386, the Ottoman Sultan Murad I himself led much larger forces that took Niš from Lazar.

2.1.Battle of Chernomen and its consequences

Was a battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Serbian Empire that lead to the loss of southern Serbia to the Ottomans.

January 1374: In 1373 Ivan Shishman, the ruler of Moravian Serbia, was forced to negotiate a humiliating peace treaty: he became an Ottoman vassal strengthening the union with a marriage between Murad and Shishman's sister Kera Tamara. To compensate, the Ottomans returned some of the conquered lands, including Ihtiman and Samokov.

January 1374: Between 1371 and 1373 the Ottomans emerged as a considerable power on the Balkans. They ruled over the entire Thrace and had seized the lands of Uglesha in Eastern Macedonia.

3. Conquests of Bayezid I

Expansion during the rule of Bayezid I in the Ottoman Sultanate.

January 1390: Ottoman General Lala Shahin Pasha took Sofia and the capital of Bulgaria, Tirnova.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

December 1373: Prince Lazar was the ruler of Moravian Serbia, while the king of Hungary was Louis I. The Vojinovic domain was a powerful Serbian noble family. The coalition was formed to weaken their influence, leading to the partition of their territory among Prince Lazar and the king of Hungary in 1373.

January 1388: The Serbian principalities under the command of Prince Lazar Hreveljanovič , defeated Kara Timurtas at Plosnik (1388) and forced the Ottomans to retreat to Thrace and Macedonia.