# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prince-marko
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:21:57.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prince-marko"
name: "Prince Marko"
slug: "prince-marko"
description: "A medieval Serbian king who ruled almost nothing in life but everything in memory. Prince Marko was a minor regional lord forced into Ottoman vassalage, yet oral tradition rebuilt him as the fearless giant who stood against the Turks — the Balkans' shared folk protector, claimed by Serbs, Macedonians, and Bulgarians alike."
tagline: "Serbian medieval ruler and fictional character"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marko_Mrnjavcevic.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1335"
deathDate: "1395-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.76
  momentum:             1.10255705251581
  historical:           22.47870133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Journalist"
    slug: "journalist"
  - name: "Royalty"
    slug: "royalty"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
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    title: "Kralevic Marko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Kraljevi%C4%87"
    title: "Marko Kraljević"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princo_Marko"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شاهزاده مارکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marko Kraljević"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marko Mrnjavčević"
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    title: "მარკო მრნიავჩევიჩი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Крал Марко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "മാർക്കോ മിർജാവേവിക്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%B3lewicz_Marko"
    title: "Królewicz Marko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_da_S%C3%A9rvia"
    title: "Marco da Sérvia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Kralevici"
    title: "Marko Kralevici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Королевич Марко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marko Mrnjavčević"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marko Kraleviqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ماركو كرالييفيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Крали Марко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marko Mrnjavčević was crowned "young king" by his father Vukašin around 1370, positioned to inherit a crumbling Serbian throne. That throne came faster than planned: Vukašin died at the Battle of Maritsa in September 1371, Tsar Uroš followed two months later, and Marko became de jure king of Serbian lands no one would let him rule. The noblemen ignored him. By 1377 he'd lost most of his inherited territory and become an Ottoman vassal, reduced to a small domain in western Macedonia centered on Prilep. He built the Monastery of Saint Demetrius near Skopje in 1376, then spent nearly two decades as a minor lord serving the empire that had swallowed his world. On 17 May 1395, fighting for the Ottomans against Wallachia at the Battle of Rovine, he died. The folk songs did the rest: they erased the vassal and crowned the giant, turning a footnote king into the hero who never knelt.