Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Kingdom of Syrmia
drawn on the map 1285–1325
A short-lived Hungarian-Serbian holding in Syrmia (Srem), the region between the Danube and Sava. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries the Hungarian crown granted the title "Despot of Serbia"/lord of Syrmia to exiled Serbian nobles (the Branković and later the Berislavić lines) as a frontier bulwark against the Ottomans.
- Shown on the map
- 1285–1325
- Peak area
- 24k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A short-lived Hungarian-Serbian holding in Syrmia (Srem), the region between the Danube and Sava. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries the Hungarian crown granted the title "Despot of Serbia"/lord of Syrmia to exiled Serbian nobles (the Branković and later the Berislavić lines) as a frontier bulwark against the Ottomans. It disappeared with the Ottoman conquest following Mohács (1526).
Common questions
- What was the Kingdom of Syrmia?
- A short-lived Hungarian-Serbian holding in Syrmia (Srem), the region between the Danube and Sava. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries the Hungarian crown granted the title "Despot of Serbia"/lord of Syrmia to exiled Serbian nobles (the Branković and later the Berislavić lines) as a frontier bulwark against the Ottomans.
- When is the Kingdom of Syrmia shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Kingdom of Syrmia 1285–1325. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Kingdom of Syrmia?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Kingdom of Syrmia covered about 24,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Syrmia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrmia
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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