Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daular Bulgaria ta kasance cikin raguwa a karni na 14, kuma an nuna alamar Serbia ta hanyar nasarar Serbia a kan 'yan Bulgaria a yakin Velbazhd a 1330. 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 ya shiga ƙarƙashin mamayar Ottoman, kamar yadda yawancin kudancin Bulgaria ya zama yankin Ottoman a 1371.
Ka yi haƙuri. 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, dukkanin tsibirin Balkan sun haɗu da su, ko kuma sun zama masu biyayya ga Ottomans.