Olivera Lazarević

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Marija Olivera Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Оливера Лазаревић; 1372 – after 1444), or Olivera Despina Hatun, was a Serbian princess and consort of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, whom she married just after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 as a pledge of peace between the Lazarević and Ottoman dynasties. She was the youngest daughter of Lazar of Serbia and Princess Milica. The story of Olivera's and Bayezid's captivity by Timur after the Battle of Ankara (1402) has been popularly narrated, most often in plays and operas. The most significant of these stories is Tamburlaine (1587–1588) by Christopher Marlowe, in which she is named “Zabina”.

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