The energetic Stephen Tvrtko, taking advantage of …
Years: 1377 - 1377
The energetic Stephen Tvrtko, taking advantage of internal crises among traditional Bosnian rivals Serbia and Hungary, has recovered Bosnia's lost territory, extended his lands along the Adriatic coast and into Serbia, and, as the Nemanjic dynasty had expired in 1371, in 1377 crowns himself “king of the Serbs, of Bosnia, and of the coast,” trumpeting his alleged Nemanja heritage; he will eventually add to his title Dalmatia and Croatia as well.
Whether his suzerain, Louis of Hungary, had approved Tvrtko's coronation cannot be decided.
