Realm · approximate borders · 1451–1496

Zeta under the Crnojevići

After the Serbian Despotate lost its hold, Stefan Crnojević ruled upper Zeta from 1451, between Venetian Kotor, Budva and Shkodër and the Ottomans. Ivan Crnojević moved the capital from Žabljak to Cetinje in 1482 after the Ottomans took the lowlands, and founded the Cetinje monastery and press; Đurađ fled in 1496 and Zeta was annexed to the Ottoman sanjak of Shkodër.

The lake-shore lowlands were lost in the 1470s. Sources: Wikipedia 'Zeta under the Balšići', 'Zeta under the Crnojevići'.

See Zeta under the Crnojevići on the map in 1451

On the map: 1451–1496
Capital: Žabljak, then Cetinje (1482)

Rulers named in the sources

Stefan Crnojević 1451–1465
Ivan Crnojević 1465–1490
Đurađ Crnojević 1490–1496

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.