Serbs III

1459-1650 CE

From 1459 to 1650 CE, the Serbs endured the long Ottoman night — Smederevo's fall ending the medieval kingdom, the great migrations scattering refugees to Habsburg borderlands, the Patriarchate of Peć briefly restored only to be suppressed again. Under the sultan's shadow, they kept their faith in monastery cells and their memory in epic songs, waiting for a liberation that would not come for centuries.