Aftermath of the Ottoman Conquest of Serbia (1470s)

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1. 1471Srem · SerbiaMehmed II personally led a large army into southern Hungary, capturing towns in Srem such as Zrenjanin and Sremska Mitrovica and advancing to the walls of Belgrade. Though he failed to take the Belgrade fortress, the Ottomans successfully pushed the northern Serbian frontier to the Danube and weakened Hungarian control over former Serbian lands.
2. 1471–1476Smederevo and Belgrade · SerbiaThe exiled despot Stefan Branković retained his title and some lands under Hungarian protection; Smederevo and other places nominally still belonged to the traditional Serbian realm but in fact were divided between Ottoman sanjaks and Hungarian frontier defenses. Envoys exchanged frequently, small border clashes continued, and Serbian nobles wavered between the two powers to survive.
3. 1476–1480Belgrade · SerbiaAfter Stefan Branković's death, the despot title passed to Vuk Grgurević Branković, but political influence was greatly diminished. By the 1480s, the Ottoman Smederevo Sanjak firmly controlled the Morava river valley, and no independent Serbian regime remained in the homeland, with only localized resistance forces in places like Montenegro.