Darman and Kudelin
Darman (
Braničevo and Kučevo (in modern Serbia) in the late 13th century (1273–1291). The two brothers used the weakened state of centralized administration in the region to become independent from the Kingdom of Hungary[5][6][3] or the Second Bulgarian Empire[7] in 1273. The capital of their domains was the fortress of Ždrelo, on the Mlava river. Relying on auxiliary troops that consisted mostly of Tatar and Cuman mercenaries,[5][2][8] the brothers were “very independent-minded and afraid of no one”, according to Serbian archbishop Danilo II.[5]
They regularly attacked their western neighbour, the Hungarian vassal
Stefan Uroš II Milutin, managed to defeat Darman and Kudelin and conquered their region,[8] which came for the first time under the rule of a Serb[9] The brothers either flew to Nogai[8] or were killed in this campaign, as they disappear from the historical sources thereafter.[7]
Darman and Kudelin were relatives or close associates of the Bulgarian despotēs Shishman of Vidin, the founder of the Shishman dynasty of Bulgarian rulers, as he proceeded to attack the Serbian domains to his west, presumably as a response to Dragutin's conquest of the neighbouring Braničevo.[9]
References
- ^ Fine 1994, pp. 181, 220.
- ^ a b Vásáry 2005, p. 105.
- ^ a b Uzelac 2011, p. 11.
- ^ Madgearu 2017, p. 261.
- ^ a b c d Fine 1994, p. 220.
- ^ Vásáry 2005, p. 104.
- ^ a b Бакалов & Куманов 2003.
- ^ a b c Uzelac 2011, p. 12.
- ^ a b Fine 1994, p. 221.
Sources
- Бакалов, Георги; Куманов, Милен (2003). "Дърман (краят на XIII в.); Куделин (втората половина на XIII в.)". Електронно издание "История на България" (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Trud. ISBN 954528613X.
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- Madgearu, Alexandru J (2017). The Asanids: the political and military history of the second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1280). Leiden. )
- Uzelac, Aleksandar (2011). "Tatars and Serbs at the End of the Thirteenth Century". Revista de istorie militară. 5–6: 9–20.
- Vásáry, István (2005). Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139444088.