Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Kingdom of Bosnia
1377–1463
1377–1463. Tvrtko I Kotromanić was crowned King of Bosnia and Serbia in the fall of 1377 (probably 26 October, St. Demetrius's day); contemporary sources on the event are very rare.
- Existed
- 1377–1463
- Shown on the map
- 1385–1481
- Peak area
- 53k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
1377–1463. Tvrtko I Kotromanić was crowned King of Bosnia and Serbia in the fall of 1377 (probably 26 October, St. Demetrius's day); contemporary sources on the event are very rare. The coronation site is contested: traditionally the Orthodox Mileševa monastery before the relics of St. Sava, but a revisionist and archaeological view places it at the Church of St. Nicholas in Mile near Visoko (where most Bosnian coronations were held), with a crown sent by Louis I of Hungary. Tvrtko exploited the Nemanjić extinction to claim a Serbian royal heritage and briefly dominated the western Balkans. After his death (1391) royal power waned amid magnate strife. The last king, Stephen Tomašević (r. 1461–1463, crowned 17 November 1461 with a papal crown from Pius II — the only Bosnian king crowned with papal approval), could not withstand Mehmed II's invasion of 1463: captured at Ključ, he was beheaded on 25 May 1463 at Carevo Polje near Jajce (sources differ on whether the mullah Ali al-Bistami or, per the chronicler Benedetto Dei, Mehmed II personally carried out the execution), and Bosnia became an Ottoman province.
Common questions
- What was the Kingdom of Bosnia?
- 1377–1463. Tvrtko I Kotromanić was crowned King of Bosnia and Serbia in the fall of 1377 (probably 26 October, St. Demetrius's day); contemporary sources on the event are very rare.
- When did the Kingdom of Bosnia exist?
- The Kingdom of Bosnia existed 1377–1463. On this map it is drawn 1385–1481.
- How large was the Kingdom of Bosnia?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Kingdom of Bosnia covered about 53,000 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 — Kingdom of Bosnia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bosnia
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
See the Kingdom of Bosnia in its world
Open the atlas at 1433 and every neighbour, rival and successor is on screen with it — then drag the slider and watch what happens next.
Open the map at 1433 →