Pad srpske despotovine 1459. godine
The Fall of the Serbian Despotism in 1459

Summary/Abstract: In this paper author deals with some events related to the fall of The Serbian Despotism, as well as the circumstances that contributed to the military-political breakdown of the medieval Bosnian Kingdom. The paper’s aim is to expose a few moments, related to the mentioned event, which is pushed down in our science. The first fact is that the last Serbian despot , as a saviour of the sinking ship, actually was a Bosnian prince Stjepan Tomashevic. He came on this position with a legitimate act by getting married to Jelena (Marija) Brankovic, a daughter of an earlier Serbian despot Lazar (1456 – 1458).Unfortunately, his short trip to the throne of Serbian Despotism has also affected to situation in Bosnian Kingdom, whose throne he took over two years later, in 1461. Also, by this work I want to highlight the truth about the last Bosnian queen Mara (Jelena) and briefly to get know the public about life story of this unfortunate woman who at last found her asylum in the Ottoman Empire where she was living as a part of rich society while she was retaining the title of the queen. So, I want to correct the frequent mistakes, that could be found in our publicist, about Catharine Kotromanic (Kosaca) as the last Bosnian queen. Of course, introducing all of this wouldn’t make sense without following at least basic political events that caused the downfall of medieval Bosnian Kingdom.

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