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| | THE MEDIÆVAL SERBIAN EMPIRE |
 | | Still more famous was Vukashin, guardian and cup-bearer of the young Tsar, who drove his master from the throne in I366, and assumed the title of king, with the government of the specially Serbian lands and Prizren as his capital. |
 | | But it has now been proved that Stephen Urosh V survived his supposed murderer, who fell by the hand of his own servant, fighting against the Turks at the battle of the Maritza in 1371, the first great blow that Serbia received from her future conqueror. |
 | | Two months after Vukashin Stephen Urosh V died also, and Lazar Grbljanovich, a connection of the Imperial family, ascended the throne of an Empire so diminished that he preferred the style of " Prince" to that of Tsar, which was conferred upon him in the ballads. |
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