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unusual facts about John Palaiologos, Despot



Battle of Leskovac

After the successful route of the Ottomans under Firuz Bey at the Battle of Kruševac at the hands of the Serbian despot and his allies, two Serbian armies were set up, one in Kosovo, and the other in Dubočica, which is now known as Leskovac.

Despot Stefan Tower

After the Despot's death, the Serbian Despotate was destroyed by the Turks and its last city, Smederevo, succumbed.

Dion of Syracuse

Dion was the son of the Syracusan statesman Hipparinus, who had assisted the despot Dionysius I, in the Syracusan army.

George Despot

In 1988, Despot even lost his own seat on the GOP central committee when supporters of the presidential candidate, the evangelist Pat Robertson of Virginia, captured a third of the 144 seats on the committee.

Despot and a friend, Shreveport CPA George Aubrey Burton, Jr., were named by Lyons as the campaign co-chairmen, largely because it was Despot and Burton who convinced Lyons to run for governor.

Grand Domestic

It remained the formal head of the army, although in fact it was bestowed to generals and high-ranking courtiers alike, among others George Mouzalon, John Palaiologos (brother of Michael VIII), Michael Tarchaneiotes, Alexios Strategopoulos and John Kantakouzenos (the future John VI).

Israel Dov Frumkin

In 1883, for reflecting upon Gen. Lew Wallace, the American Minister to the Ottoman Empire, in an editorial in Havatzelet (xiii. No. 6), headed "An American and yet a Despot", the Havatzelet was suspended, and Frumkin was imprisoned for forty-five days, by order from Constantinople directed to the pasha of Jerusalem.

Ivan III of Russia

After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver (1467), and at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the Holy See, Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue (also known under her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus, despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor.

Jakšić noble family

Despot Vuk, Dmitar Jakšić, and his son Jovan Jakšić, took part in the campaign of King Matthias against the Turks in 1481, when the Christian army arrived at Kruševac.

King of Foxes

Now one of the secret society's most valuable agents, he gains entrance into the court of Duke Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal's village to the sword, by posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles.

Klokotnitsa

The village is famous for the great battle on 9 March 1230, between the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Byzantine Greek despot Theodore Komnin of Epirus.

Lazarević dynasty

Stefan Lazarević (around 1377 - July 19, 1427), prince (1389–1402) and despot (1402–1427)

Music of Old Serbia

Traces of his existence are found in the monastery in Kumanovo, in today's Macedonia, in a monastery in Romania, but also in the court of despot Lazar Branković in Smederevo.

Nikolai Vlasik

In the memoirs of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, she characterizes Vlasik as an "illiterate, silly, rough and extremely impudent despot".

Olivera Despina

Olivera had four older sisters, Mara (mother of Serbian despot Đurađ Branković), Dragana, Teodora, and Jelena (mother of Balša III, the last ruler of Zeta) and two brothers, Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević and Vuk.

Philip I, Prince of Taranto

Upon the death of Nikephoros (c. 1297), Philip took the title of "Despot of Romania", claiming Epirus, Aetolia, Acarnania, and Vlachia.

Radio Goodies

Tim's efforts to close the post office down come to nothing, however, as Graeme (remodelling himself as a totalitarian despot, complete with eyepatch) has become obsessed with dreams of ruling the world.

Romanians in Ukraine

In 1681 Gheorghe Duca's title was "Despot of Moldavia and Ukraine", as he was simultaneously Prince of Moldavia and Hetman of Ukraine.

Serbian eagle

jpg"?title=Stefan Lazarević">Stefan Lazarević (from Manasija monastery, 15th century) showing him with the double-headed eagle emblem embroidered on his robe

The double-headed eagle was officially adopted by Stefan Lazarević after he received the despot-title, the second highest Byzantine title, by John VII Palaiologos in August 1402 at the court in Constantinople.

Sit Down, Man

Their previous success meant that they could obtain the services of many guest producers, including Diplo, whose Mad Decent label co-published the album, Dame Grease, Devo Springsteen, Sabzi (of Blue Scholars and Common Market) and Boi-1da, and guest artists El-P, Despot, Vijay Iyer, and Chairlift.

Snake's Revenge

Whereas the game reveals the main villain to be Big Boss, who betrayed Snake in the first Metal Gear, the instruction manual identifies the villain as "Higharolla Kockamamie" (a play on Ayatollah Khomeini), an Eastern despot who obtained the plans for his "Ultra-Sheik Nuclear Attack Tank" (the manual's name for Metal Gear) from Vermon CaTaffy (a play on Muammar Gaddafi, the supposed villain from the original Metal Gear).

Stari Ledinci

According to the legend, the village of Ledinci was among the possessions of the Serbian despot Jovan Branković (1496–1502), who donated this village to the Rakovac Monastery.

Stefan Lazarević

Stefan II became an ally of the Kingdom of Hungary and a knight of a special order, so when the Hungarian king Sigismund renewed the Order of the Dragon (Societas draconistrarum) in 1408, Despot Stefan Lazarević was the first on the list of members.

Taormina

It is probable that it passed under the authority of Agathocles, who drove the historian Timaeus into exile; and some time after this it was subject to a domestic despot of the name of Tyndarion, who was contemporary with Hicetas of Syracuse and Phintias of Agrigentum.

Theodora

Theodora Tocco, despoina consort of Constantine, Despot in Morea (later Constantine XI Palaiologos).

Theodore Palaiologos

Theodore I Palaiologos (c. 1355–1407), Despot of the Morea in 1383–1407

Thomas Kantakouzenos

The Byzantinist Donald Nicol, who researched the family's history, categorically identifies him as the brother of George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos; Giovanni Musachi makes him the brother of Irene Kantakouzene, wife of Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković, but incorrectly states Thomas was the son of the Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, an error DuCange repeats.

Despite this ceremony, Kantakouzenos carried on the fight on behalf of his brother-in-law, leading the Despot's army to victory over the Kral of Bosnia, Stephen Thomas, on 16 September 1448, which restored Srebrnica to Serbian rule.


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