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Vuk Branković

1345 - 1397

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Vuk Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Бранковић, pronounced [ʋûːk brǎːnkoʋit͡ɕ], 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, entire Kosovo, the northern part of present-day Republic of North Macedonia, and northern Montenegro. His fief (and later state) was known as Oblast Brankovića (District of Branković) or simply as Vukova zemlja (Vuk's land), which he held with the title of gospodin (lord, sir), under Prince Lazar of Serbia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vuk Branković has received more than 184,594 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Vuk Branković is the 2,848th most popular politician (up from 3,483rd in 2019).

Vuk Branković was a Serbian nobleman and ruler of the Serbian Despotate from 1427 to 1456. He was the son of Serbian ruler Stefan Branković and the Byzantine princess Irene Kantakouzene.

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Among politicians, Vuk Branković ranks 2,848 out of 19,576. Before him are Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi, Joseph Babinski, Felipe González, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, and Gerard de Ridefort. After him are Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, Netjerkare Siptah, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Francisco de Almeida, Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases, and Charles the Younger.

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Among people born in 1345, Vuk Branković ranks 3. Before him are Charles III of Naples, and Ferdinand I of Portugal. After him are Gongyang of Goryeo, Blanche of Lancaster, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Helen of Bosnia, and Magnus I, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1397, Vuk Branković ranks 1. After him are Francesco Landini, Skirgaila, Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria, John II, Duke of Bavaria, Albert II, Duke of Bavaria, and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.

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