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tsardoms at Vidin and Tarnovo and the Despotate of Dobrudzha--became easy prey for a new threat arriving from the Southeast: the Ottoman Turks.

Ottoman rule

The Ottomans were employed as mercenaries by the Byzantines in the 1340s, but later became invaders in their own right. Sultan Murad I took Adrianople

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