Kingdom of Bosnia
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The Kingdom of Bosnia, or Bosnian Kingdom, was a medieval kingdom that lasted for nearly a century, from 1377 to 1463, and evolved out of the Banate of Bosnia, which itself lasted from at least 1154.
Coin of Tvrtko II
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, depicted in Hrvoje's Missal
Weapons of Medieval Bosnian kingdom
Stjepan Tomašević, the last Bosnian king, by Jacopo Bellini
Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia
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Stephen Tomašević or Stephen II was the last sovereign from the Bosnian Kotromanić dynasty, reigning as Despot of Serbia briefly in 1459 and as King of Bosnia from 1461 until 1463.
Kingdom of Bosnia
…eastern Bosnia in the 1440s and 1450s and went on to conquer Hum, by then renamed to Herzegovina, with the last fortress, Novi, falling in December 1481. Stephen Tomašević, the last king of Bosnia, was captured by the Ottomans and killed in 1463. The overwhelming majority of the population was rural, with few significant…
The acquisition of the Smederevo Fortress in 1459 was an important but short-lived success.
Pope Pius II's memoirs provide a major insight into Stephen Tomašević's reign.
Putative remains of King Stephen