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as his endowment. Jovan Oliver outlived DuŔan, but after his death, his sons were unable to assert themselves: possibly opposed by a coalition of other nobles, they failed to acquire any positions of importance, and most of their father's lands were taken over by
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403:Jovan Asen
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207:DejanoviÄi
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219:vlastelin
195:OvÄe Pole
187:Macedonia
143:vlastelin
86:Full name
76:OvÄe Pole
360:Vidoslav
306:Strumica
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246:UroÅ” III
191:Thessaly
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109:ca. 1356
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270:in the
230:Ragusan
183:voivode
156:Serbian
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199:Vardar
139:Father
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