Janja Kantakouzenos (Serbian: Јања Кантакузиновић; after 1435 – September 1477) was a nobleman from the mine town of Novo Brdo (then Serbian Despotate)...
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('well-born'). Michael Kantakouzenos was appointed the first epitropos (governor) of the Morea in 1308 and his son, John VI Kantakouzenos, rose to be megas...
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fortresses in Serbia. Janja Kantakouzenos (c. 1435–1477), nobleman from the mine town of Novo Brdo (then Serbian Despotate) John VI Kantakouzenos, or Cantacuzenus...
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Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror executed several members of the Kantakouzenos family in Serbia; Janja was executed in Istanbul in September 1477 together with...
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such as the Angeloi and Kantakouzenos; notable statesmen in the Serbian Despotate of Greek origin include Janja Kantakouzenos, Dimitrije Kantakuzin and...
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Byzantine surname Kantakouzenos; in the 15th century several descendants of the Kantakouzenoi lived in the Serbian Despotate. It may refer to: Janja Kantakuzin...
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fortress of Golubac Mihal (fl. 1445), veliki čelnik Thomas Kantakouzenos Janja Kantakouzenos Dimitrije Kantakuzin Radič (fl. 1413–41), veliki čelnik. Jakša...
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such as the Angeloi and Kantakouzenos; notable statesmen in the Serbian Despotate of Greek origin include Janja Kantakouzenos, Dimitrije Kantakuzin and...
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and 1840. Sterija eternalized his home-town with the characters of Kir Janja, Fema Ružić and others. His comedies Laža i Paralaža (1830), Pokondirena...
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career with a production of Jovan Sterija Popović's popular comedy "Kir Janja" (Pančevo, 1839). Soon after World War II and the formation of socialist...
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