Why is serbia considered to be a defender against ottomans when

>>2705272
And he got sovereignty for that. Also the sultana was Serbian. I may be a tatar shit but at least my people have never fallen as low as this.

>>2705272
Because Serbs acted as Austrian and Hungarian border guards for centuries. Because Stefan was under oath since he was a child. Because it was opportune to not get conquered, and his sister was Bayezid's favorite consort.
Because after Bayezid's death (which he did his best to prevent in the battle of Angora, but Bayezid was an idiot) he bailed and established alliances with the remnants of Byzantium and Hungary. Because after the ultimate fall of Serbia and Smederevo most of the Serbian nobility moved to Hungary and swore allegiance to the Hungarian crown.

The most successful Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th century (their height) was a Serb.

>>2705391
Who also, reinstated the Serbian church, and had his brother start a dynasty of Patriarchs.
>>2705272
Wikipedia screen caps leave complexities out of history.

>>2705272
>Why is serbia considered to be a defender against ottomans
they arent

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>>2705272
serbia is a one big giant joke

>>2705406
You just went into full damage control nigga

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Serbs are funny, backstabbed fellow Slavs to help the Ottomans and even after Timurid annihilated them they remained faithful Turk lackeys. Then when Croats, Bosnians, Austrians, Hungarians, Frenchmen, Brits, and Greeks lead the fight for liberation, they join in at the tail end and try to claim so much credit. Sad, really.

>>2705272
Because of 19th and 20th century nationalist myth-making, which rewrites history as the story of "nations", ignoring the reality that it was just a bunch of rulers acting opportunistically to advance their own interests with no conception of the "nation" or its interests