What had remained of the Despotate of Serbia eventually yielded under the overwhelming Ottoman onslaught on its new capital Smederevo in. Analysis of the earliest Ottoman registers shows that the demographic composition of Kosovo and Metohija did not alter much during the fourteenth and fteenth centuries. It is not possible at this time to write of this for fear of the Turks. Brailsford, Macedonia. Nevertheless, the Belgrade governments friendly relations with the clans of northern Albania had no tangible eect on either the Kosovo renegade pashas and their lawless clans or on the improvement of the difcult position of the persecuted Christian Serb population.
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