Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Emperor Jovan Nenad (c. 1492 - July 26, 1527; Serbian:, also spelled as Tsar Jovan Nenad in English, Fekete Ivan in Hungarian and Johann Nenad in German ) was a leader of Serb mercenaries in the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a struggle over the Hungarian throne to carve out his own state and styled himself emperor (tsar). He was born in the town of Lipova, near the Mure? River in northern Banat (today in Romania). Although to his contemporaries he was the leader of short lived rebellion, today he is being attributed the title of the founder of Vojvodina and the leader of an independent Serbian state by some Serb historians. Nenad's origins are uncertain; he was born c. 1492, perhaps in Lipova. In the Battle of Mohacs on August 29, 1526, the Ottoman Empire destroyed the army of Hungarian-Czech King Louis Jagellion, who was killed on the battlefield. After this battle, the Kingdom of Hungary became divided in three parts: Royal Hungary in the north and west became a Habsburg province, Transylvania in the east became a independent state, while the former central and southern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary were absorbed by the Ottoman Empire. As King Louis had no children, Hungary was divided into two parties: one elected John Zapolya, a respected Hungarian noble, while the other declared for the King of Hungary a Habsburg, Ferdinand, Louis' brother-in-law. A part of this struggle was the leader of Serb mercenaries, Jovan Nenad, whom his contemporaries called "Black Man" due to his dark complexion and possible gypsy origin. It is not certain who Nenad was. He himself claimed to be descendant of Byzantine and Serbian rulers. Some of his contemporaries have considered him a descendant of Serbian despots, while others thought he was a man of low rank with a gypsy mother. Right after the battle of Mohacs, he appeared between Tisza and Danube as a leader of a Serb regiment, and fo...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de