Jovan Nenad

Male, Deceased Person

1492 – 1527

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Who was Jovan Nenad?

Jovan Nenad, known as the Black; c. 1492 – 26 July 1527 was a Serb military commander in the service of the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a Hungarian military defeat at Mohács and subsequent struggle over the Hungarian throne to carve out his own state and styled himself emperor. He ruled for a short time over parts of a southern Pannonian Plain.

Jovan Nenad is attributed by Serbian historians as the founder of Vojvodina and the leader of the last independent Serbian state before the Ottoman conquest.

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Born
1492
Arad
Lived in
  • Subotica
Died
Jul 26, 1527
Szeged

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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