Career
He came from Dubočica, and was seated at Zelen Graduate (Skobaljić Graduate). After Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II had conquered Constantinople, he attacked the Serbian Despotate in July 1454. One of the Serbian Armies was at Dubočica, led by Nikola Skobaljić.
A second army was near Sitnica, in Kosovo.
Skobaljić"s army was cut off from Serbia"s north, but managed to decisively defeat a much larger invading Ottoman army in the Battle of Banja, near Leskovac, on September 24. Skobaljić"s continued resistance to the Ottoman invasion lasted two more months.
Sultan Mehmed, furious at the failure of his Generals against the Voivode, personally took command of the Ottomans and finally defeated Skobaljić"s army at Trepanja on 16 November 1454.