Characters
Some heroes are paired with their horses:
- Voivod Momchil - Jabučilo, a winged horse
- Prince Marko - Šarac
- Banović Strahinja - Đogin
- Miloš Obilić - Ždralin
- Damjan Jugović - Zelenko
- Hajduk Veljko - Kušlja
- Jovan Kursula - Strina
Rest of them include:
- Pavle Orlović
- Milan Toplica
Popular legendary heroes of Serbian epic poetry who are depicted as enemies of Kraljević Marko are based upon historical persons:
- Musa Kesedžija - he is the result of merging several historical people including Musa Çelebi son of Bayezid I and Musa from the Muzaka Albanian noble family while Jovan Tomić thinks he is based on the supporter of Jegen Osman Pasha
- Djemo the Mountaineer - a member of Muzaka noble family from Albania (Gjin Muzaka) or maybe Ottoman military person Jegen Osman Pasha
- General Vuča - Tanush Dukagjin, a member of Dukagjini noble family from Albania or Prince Eugene of Savoy or Peter Doci
- Philip the Magyar - Pipo of Ozora, an Italian condottiero, general, strategist and confidant of King Sigismund of Hungary.
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