Jovan Nenad
Jovan Nenad (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Ненад; Hungarian: Fekete Iván or János; ca. 1492 – 26 July 1527), known as the Black[a] was a Serb military commander in the service of the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a Hungarian military defeat at Mohács and subsequent struggle over the Hungarian throne to carve out his own state in the southern Pannonian Plain. He styled himself emperor (tsar).
| Jovan Nenad | |
|---|---|
Monument in Subotica | |
| Emperor of the Serbs | |
| Reign | 1526 – 1527 |
| Born | c. 1492 Lippa, Banate of Severin, Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania) |
| Died | 26 July 1527 Sedfal field, near Szeged |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Jovan Nenad is attributed by Serbian historians as the founder of Vojvodina and the leader of the last independent Serbian state before the Ottoman conquest.
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