Ka cika wannan jumlar: Daular Bulgaria ta fara raguwa a ƙarni na 14, kuma nasarar da Serbia ta yi a kan 'yan Bulgeriya a Yaƙin Velbazhd a shekara ta 1330 ya nuna cewa Serbia ta fi ƙarfinta. A shekara ta 1346, Sarkin Serbia Stefan Dušan ya zama sarki. Duk da haka mulkin Serbia bai daɗe ba; sojojin Serbia da Lazar Hrebljevanovic ya jagoranta Ottomans suka ci su a yakin Kosovo a 1389, inda aka kashe yawancin masarautar Serbia kuma kudancin ƙasar ta kasance ƙarƙashin mamayar Ottoman, kamar yadda yawancin kudancin Bulgaria ya zama yankin Ottoman
a shekara ta 1371. A ƙarshe an ci nasara da ragowar arewacin Bulgaria ta 1396, Serbia ta faɗi a 1459, Bosnia a 1463, kuma Albania ta kasance a ƙarshe a cikin 1479 'yan shekaru bayan mutuwar Skanderbeg. Belgrade, yankin Hungary a lokacin, shine babban birni na Balkan na ƙarshe da ya faɗa ƙarƙashin mulkin Ottoman, a cikin 1521. A ƙarshen zamanin da, duk yankin Balkan ya haɗu da, ko kuma ya zama mai mulkin Ottoman.