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Jovan Nenad
Jovan Nenad was a Serbian leader who, after the Ottoman victory at Mohács in 1526, gathered an army of Serbs in the southern Hungarian plain and proclaimed himself tsar, ruling from Subotica over much of Bačka and the Banat. In the contest for the Hungarian throne he turned from John Zápolya to Ferdinand of Habsburg, and he was defeated and killed by Zápolya's forces in 1527.
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