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Mara Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мара Бранковић; c. 1420 – 14 September 1487), or Mara Despina Hatun, in Europe also known as Amerissa, Sultana Maria or Sultanina, was the daughter of Serbian monarch Đurađ Branković and Eirene Kantakouzene.
The House of Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранковић, pl. Brankovići / Бранковићи, pronounced [brǎːnkɔv̞itɕ]) is a Serbian medieval noble family and dynasty. [1]
The Massarelli next names an older sister of Stefan, Mara Branković. She was one of the wives of Murad II. [citation needed] Stefan himself is listed third. His younger sister is listed as Cantacuzina, the Latinized version of their mother's last name. Later genealogies give her name as Katarina. She married Ulrich II of Celje.
Mara, married Stefan Crnojević, Lord of Zeta (r. 1451–65) Skanderbeg (Gjergj Kastrioti, 1405–1468), Albanian magnate and general; Ottoman subaşi of Krujë, sanjakbey of Dibra, later organizer of the League of Lezhë, and Neapolitan vassal as of 1451; Jelena (or Jela), married Pavle Balšić [23] with whom she had, according to Noli, three ...
Osvajači (Serbian Cyrillic: Освајачи; trans. The Conquerors) are a Serbian and Yugoslav hard rock band formed in Kragujevac in 1990.. Formed by vocalist Zvonko Pantović "Čipi", guitarist Dragan Urošević, bass guitarist Saša Popović and drummer Miša Raca, the band was soon joined by veteran keyboardist Laza Ristovski.
The institution derives its name from Kantakuzina Katarina Branković, aristocratic figure in the XV century.She was the daughter of Đurađ Branković, the Serbian despot, and his wife, Irene Kantakouzene, a member of the Kantakouzenos family of the Byzantine Empire.
Elliott's high school yearbook photo. Samuel Pack Elliott was born August 9, 1944, at the Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California, [1] [2] the son of Glynn Mamie (née Sparks), a Texas state diving champion in high school and later a physical-training instructor and high-school teacher, and Henry Nelson Elliott, who worked as a predator-control specialist for the Department of the ...
The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Soviet/Russian man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO: SA-16 Gimlet ), and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S ( SA-24 Grinch ).