The Slavic language word deak (English: student) was used by Hungarians to denote those who studied at schools with Latin-script textbooks.

[1] The Ottomans captured Nestorović and handed him over to their vassal Imre Thököly, who put him in prison in Veliki Varadin (modern-day Oradea in Romania).

[8] Count Đorđe Branković had no military experience and tried to engage Nestorović to command units of Serbs he would mobilize to join the Army of the Holy Roman Empire.

The rebels left their homes and fieldwork expecting a quick advance by the army; which, however, continued its invasion into Ottoman Serbia only in July 1689.

[19] In 1699, after the Treaty of Karlovac, the Serb regiment under command of Nestorović was disbanded and he was appointed as Oberstarzt (English: Lieutenant) of Titel.