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Janja Kantakouzenos

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happened that year. He had economic deals with the Ottoman Empire; in 1468 he, Yorgi Ivrana, Tomanin Kantakouzenos of Serres, and a Palaiologos of Istanbul are mentioned as tax-farmers of mines in the region of Serbia (Laz and Vilk); in 1474 he, his brother George, Nikola Danjovil and Lika received the tax-farm of the gold and silver mines of upper Serbia, for the sum of 14 million
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In Ragusan documents dated to 1461 and 1462, Janja is mentioned as "Jagno Catacusini de Novo Brdo". The presence of Demetrius and Janja in Novo Brdo after 1467 shows that the Kantakouzenoi were not affected by Mehmed II's massive deportation and forced settlement of the inhabitants to Istanbul, which
225:'s mother. According to Stavrides it is not impossible that Janja's business with the Ottomans were due to his relations to a high-standing official, such as Mahmud Pasha. Babinger mentioned that Janja was a close relative of 511: 159: 501: 209:
Janja was executed in Istanbul in September 1477 together with his two younger brothers, his four sons and twelve grandsons, on the orders of Sultan
476: 195: 481: 423: 491: 403: 226: 229:, the daughter of Đurađ Branković and Irene Kantakouzene. Irene's brother George was allegedly a cousin of Mahmud Pasha's mother. 213:. A Palaiologos buried their remains in Galata on 16 September the same year. The reason for his family's execution is not known. 506: 486: 496: 187: 163: 440:
The Byzantine family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) ca. 1100-1460: A Genealogical and Prosopographical Study
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The Sultan of vezirs: the life and times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453–1474)
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Miloš Blagojević; Dejan Medaković; Radoš Ljušić; Čedomir Popov (2000),
203: 182:) at Novo Brdo during the 1440s. His father was most likely one of the 90: 76: 54: 146:; after 1435 – September 1477) was a nobleman from the mine town of 267:(Јања Кантакузиновић). His given name has also been rendered as 290:
Stavrides, p. 91: "...Ragusan documents as 'lord of Novo Brdo'"
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Matei Cazacu made the assumption that Janja was a relative to
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Janja's father, whose name is unknown, was a customs officer (
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that settled Serbia after the marriage of Serbian Despot
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Index

John VI Kantakouzenos
Novo Brdo
Serbian Despotate
Kosovo
Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Galata
Noble family
Kantakouzenoi
Serbian
Novo Brdo
Serbian Despotate
Ottoman Empire
conquest of Serbia
Đurađ Branković
Irene Kantakouzene
Kantakouzenoi
Đurađ Branković
Irene Kantakouzene
Demetrius
akçe
Mehmed II
Mahmud Pasha
Catherine of Cilli
Dimitrije Kantakuzin



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