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Dec 31, 2022 · Following the assimilation of the Byzantine capital into the Ottoman Empire and the death of her parents, Mara returned to the Ottoman court sometime in 1956-1957. The Truth About Mara’s Role. As it turns out, Mara Branković was not the biological mother of Sultan Mehmed II. In fact, there seem to be no records that Mara had any children.
Feb 7, 2019 · The only known portrait of Mara. As far as obscure Slavic princesses go, Mara Branković, eldest daughter of the Serbian Despot¹, Đurađ Branković, is pretty obscure. She has been all but forgotten to the world, yet for several decades she was one of the most important diplomats in Europe, helping to keep a tenuous peace between the Muslim ...
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In 1431, Durad Brankovic concluded a peace treaty with Sultan Murad II by agreeing to give his eldest daughter as a bride. (Another reason the Nicol assertion is unlikely is that Mara would be nineteen based on his dates - rather old to be unmarried or to appeal to the Sultan in this sort of arrangement).
Murad II. Mara Brankovic was born to a mother from an imperial Byzantine family and Durad, the Despot of Serbia. Wedged between aggressive neighbours, Durad pursued a diplomatic balance by marrying off his daughters. One wed a Hungarian courtier, while Mara became the fourth wife of Ottoman Sultan, Murad II. Having disappeared into the harem ...
Aug 6, 2012 · A recent acquisition to the Special Collections Stacks of the Hilandar Research Library is Mihailo St. Popović’s Mara Branković: Eine Frau zwischen dem christlichen und dem islamischen Kulturkreis im 15. Jahrh. Peleus: Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns 45.
The question of the circulation of municipal knowledge has benefited in the last decade from a renewed historiographical attention. In a Mediterranean context, the stake is mainly to reconsider our perception of the circulation of ideas that enabled (or constrained) the modernisation of societies during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Mara, also known as Jelena, was the daughter of despot Lazar and granddaughter of despot Đurađ Branković. Her mother was Helene Palaiologos, daughter of Morea’s despot Thomas Palaiologos. She was born around 1447 as the first child from their marriage. She had two younger sisters, Milica and Jerina. Her father, the despot Lazar, died in ...
