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John VI Kantakouzenos responded by having Matthew crowned as co-emperor, but John V Palaiologos, enlisting Genoese support and relying on the declining popularity of Kantakouzenos, succeeded in entering the capital in November 1354. John VI Kantakouzenos abdicated and retired to a monastery. Matthew
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Open warfare broke out in 1352, when John V, supported by Venetian and Serbian troops, launched an attack on Matthew Kantakouzenos. John Kantakouzenos came to his son's aid with 10,000 Ottoman troops who retook the cities of Thrace, plundering them in the process. In October 1352, at Demotika, the
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Steadily deteriorating relations between Matthew, who now ruled eastern Thrace, and John V, who lived in western Thrace, sowed the seeds for the resumption of the civil war.
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held out in Thrace and made war upon the Serbians in 1356. Later, Matthew gathered an army of 5,000 Turks and marched on Serres, the Serbian-held capital of John Ugleisha.
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as the reigning dynasty. Kantakouzenos' eldest son, Matthew, also resented being passed over in favour of John V. To placate him, a semi-autonomous
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still distrusted him, while his own partisans would have preferred to depose the Palaiologoi outright and install the
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4,000 Serbians provided to John V by Dushan. This was the Ottomans' first victory in Europe. Two years later, their
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The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest
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The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c. 1295–1383
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marked the beginning of the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, culminating a century later in the
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The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331–1355) and his successors
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Reinert, Stephen W. (2002), "Fragmentation (1204–1453)", in
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was an armed conflict resulting from and following the
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Byzantine civil war of 1352-1357
encyclopedic tone
guide to writing better articles
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Byzantine civil wars
Byzantine–Turkish wars
Thrace
Constantinople
John V Palaiologos
Kantakouzenoi
Byzantine Empire
John V Palaiologos
Serbian Empire
Serbian Empire
Second Bulgarian Empire
Second Bulgarian Empire
Republic of Venice
Republic of Venice
Republic of Genoa
Republic of Genoa
Byzantine Empire
John VI Kantakouzenos
Byzantine Empire
Matthew Kantakouzenos
POW
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347
Byzantine emperor
John V Palaiologos

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