Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1402 – 1537

Serbian Despotate

A state of 1402 – 1537 — 135 years in Europe. It was replaced by Principality of Serbia. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 4 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
135 years
1402 – 1537
Rulers
5
the monarch
Most ground
27,300 km²
in 1402
Within it
6
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Serbian Despotate in 1402, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Serbian Despotate in 1402, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 27,300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Principality of Serbia: 1815 – 1882Serbian Despotate: 1402 – 1537

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Rulers

The line of monarch.

Stefan Lazarević · 1402 – 1427 · no death date to read the end againstĐurađ Branković · 1427 – 1456 · no death date to read the end againstLazar Branković · 1456 – 1458 · no death date to read the end againstStefan Branković · 1458 – 1459 · left office aliveStephen Tomašević of Bosnia · 1459 – 1459 · no death date to read the end against14501500
left alive by a regular roadending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Stefan Lazarević1402 – 142725 yearsending not on record
Đurađ Branković1427 – 145629 yearsending not on recordnephew or niece
Lazar Branković1456 – 14582 yearsending not on recordchild
Stefan Branković1458 – 14591 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia1459 – 1459under a yearending not on record

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1402 – 1459. Median reign 2 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

140214041406140814101412

27,300 km² in 1402, 27,300 km² in 1412. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Coat of arms of the Serbian Despotate
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Serbian Despotate · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samhanin
  • Flag of the Serbian Despotate
    flag, undatedFlag of the Serbian Despotate · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Old!!man1234561234

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1400 – 1499: 6 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other14001500 – 1599: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1500

1400 – 14996 rows · 4 wars and battles

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood135 years

    stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held27,300 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 26% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record5

    has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 7 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Hungarian–Ottoman Wars · Linked · 1366 – 1526Hungarian–Ottoman WarsBattle of Kosovo · In the article · 1389 · “After Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović was killed in the Battle of Kosovo on June 28, 1389, his young son Stefan Lazarević succeeded him.”Battle of KosovoĐurađ Branković · Coincidence · 1377 – 1457Đurađ BrankovićStefan Lazarević · Coincidence · 1377 – 1427Stefan LazarevićSerbian Despotate · 1402 – 1537Serbian DespotatePrincipality of Serbia · Linked · 1815 – 1882Principality of Serbia140015001600170018001900
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 135

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q878319 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.