Successor to the Serbian Empire after Kosovo 1389; experienced a cultural and economic renaissance under Despot Stefan Lazarević before Ottoman conquest in 1459.
Conquered by the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II on 20 June 1459 CE when the fortress capital Smederevo surrendered, ending medieval Serbian statehood and converting the despotate's remaining lands into the Ottoman Sanjak of Smederevo.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Serbian Despotate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1402 · 1446.
The standard English-language reference for the Serbian Despotate and its Balkan context; University of Michigan Press; confirmed via Amazon, Google Books, and Scribd.