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Dejan (sebastokrator)

fl. 1346–1355 · 14th century

Dejan was a Serbian magnate of the 14th century who married Teodora, a sister of Stefan Dušan, and received the rank of sebastokrator. He held lands around Kumanovo and in the upper Struma valley. His sons Jovan and Konstantin Dragaš built an autonomous lordship after Dušan's death, and the family is known after him as the Dejanović.

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