Serbian Despotate
Vučitrn was captured from the Serbian Despotate by the Ottomans in 1455, it remained under control of the governor of Skopsko Krajište until the definite annexation of the Serbian Despotate in 1459. The first Ottoman records include the territory of the sanjak as "Vilayet-i Vlk" (Vilayet of Vuk), a reference to Vuk Branković.