Realm · approximate borders · 1371–1421

Zeta under the Balšići

The Balšić brothers held Zeta (the lands around Lake Shkodër and the coast from Budva to the Buna) from the 1360s and were fully independent once Serbian imperial authority lapsed in 1371; Balša II briefly added Durrës and Berat (1372–85). Đurađ II ceded Shkodër to Venice in 1396 and Balša III fought Venice over the coastal towns; at his death in 1421 Zeta passed to the Serbian Despotate. Sources: Wikipedia 'Zeta under the Balšići', 'Zeta under the Crnojevići'; Shepherd plates 89 and 93.

See Zeta under the Balšići on the map in 1371

On the map: 1371–1421
Capital: Shkodër, Ulcinj

Rulers named in the sources

Đurađ I Balšić 1362–1378
Balša II 1378–1385
Đurađ II Balšić 1385–1403
Balša III 1403–1421

Eastern European states, 82 BC – 1952

States of central-eastern and south-eastern Europe, the Baltic and the north-western Caucasus: Burebista's and Decebalus' Dacia, the principality of Abasgia, Rus' Tmutarakan, Circassia until the Russian conquest of 1864, the Emirate of Bari, the Albanian principalities of Arbanon and the Thopia and Skanderbeg's League of Lezhë, Zeta under the Balšići and Crnojevići, Lombard Negroponte, Acciaioli Athens, the Livonian prince-bishoprics of Riga and Ösel–Wiek, the prince-bishops of Montenegro, the wartime Slovak Republic and post-war Poland before 1953. Few of these frontiers were ever surveyed.