Civil war in the Ottoman domains had…

Civil war in the Ottoman domains had saved Serbia in the early fifteenth century, but the Turks, in the decades since their 1389 victory at Kosovo Polje, have progressively reduced the sphere of the Serbian despotate to a small region south of the Danube with its capital at Smederjevo.

The Turks finally conquer this last Serbian stronghold in 1459 and subjugate the whole country.

Serbs flee to Hungary, Montenegro, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia, and some form outlaw bands.

In response to the activities of the latter, the Turks disinter and burn the remains of St. Sava.