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Mara Branković

1416 - 1487

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Mara Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мара Бранковић) or Mara Despina Hatun (c. 1420 – 14 September 1487), in Europe also known as Amerissa, Sultana Maria or Sultanina, was the daughter of Serbian monarch Đurađ Branković and Eirene Kantakouzene. As the daughter of Despot Đurađ, wife of Sultan Murad II, and stepmother of Mehmed II the Conqueror, she came to play a significant role in the diplomatic negotiations of the Ottoman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mara Branković has received more than 760,855 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Mara Branković is the 2,033rd most popular politician (up from 2,161st in 2019).

Mara Branković is most famous for being a Serbian princess, who was the wife of Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mara Branković ranks 2,033 out of 19,576Before her are Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Al-Amin, Stefan Milutin, Ivan I of Moscow, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and Beyhan Sultan. After her are Charles VIII of Sweden, Manfred, King of Sicily, Rajiv Gandhi, Afonso IV of Portugal, Ali al-Sistani, and Maharana Pratap.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1416, Mara Branković ranks 4Before her are Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Christopher of Bavaria, and Francis of Paola. After her are Benedetto Cotrugli, Qaitbay, and Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1487, Mara Branković ranks 2Before her is Chenghua Emperor. After her are Nicholas of Flüe, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus, John Argyropoulos, Tlacaelel, Yunus Khan, Hayder of Crimea, and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln.

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