[2][page needed] When the Ottoman government heard about these events, it decided to definitively settle the Serbian issue.

In the face of this situation, the Serbian despot Stephen Tomašević was forced to withdraw with the Hungarian soldiers at the beginning of July 1459.

[4][page needed] The fall of Smederevo led to the surrender of all the small forts in northern Serbia.

By the end of 1459, all of Serbia was under Mehmed's control, with some 200,000 Serbian captives, thus beginning more than 400 years of Ottoman rule.

[1][page needed] Smederevo became a sanjak created a bad situation for the neighboring governments and especially for the Hungarians.