History of the Serbian-Turkish wars
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The Serbian-Turkish wars were a series of armed conflicts and wars fought between the Serbia
and the Ottoman Empire
.
In 1471, a renewed Serbian principality as a vassal of Hungary was created. Up until its demise in 1540 , it spent its entirety fighting the Turks. The state usually provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
and the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
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Early encounters
- Battle of Gallipoli in 1312
- Battle of StephanianaBattle of StephanianaThe Battle of Stephaniana was a small-scale battle between the forces of the Serbian Empire and the Emirate of Aydin, allies of Byzantine emperor John VI Kantakouzenos...
in 1344
Fall of the Serbian Empire
- Battle of MaritsaBattle of MaritsaThe Battle of Maritsa, or Battle of Chernomen, took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen on September 26, 1371 between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala Şâhin Paşa and the...
in 26 September 1371 - Battle of DubravnicaBattle of DubravnicaThe Battle of Dubravnica was fought in the summer of 1380 or December 1381, on the Dubravnica River near Paraćin in today's central Serbia, between the Serbian forces of Prince Lazar of Serbia led by commanders Vitomir and Crep and the invading Ottoman Turks of Sultan Murad I...
in 1381 - Battle of PlocnikBattle of PlocnikThe Battle of Pločnik was fought in 1386 , at the village of Pločnik, near Prokuplje in today's southeastern Serbia, between the Serbian forces of prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and the invading Ottoman Turks of sultan Murad I.It was the second clash between the Ottomans and forces commanded by Lazar,...
in 1386 - Battle of SavraBattle of SavraThe Battle of the Saurian Field was fought on 18 September 1385 between Ottoman and much smaller Serbian forces. The Ottomans were victorious and most of the local Serbian and Albanian lords became vassals....
in 1385 - Battle of BilećaBattle of BilecaThe Battle of Bileća was fought on 27 August 1388 between Bosnian forces led by Duke Vlatko Vuković and the Ottomans under the leadership of Lala Shahin Pasha...
in 1388 (Aiding Bosnia) - Battle of KosovoBattle of KosovoThe Battle of Kosovo took place on St. Vitus' Day, June 15, 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I...
in 1389
Serbian Despotate
- Battle of TripoljeBattle of TripoljeThe Battle of Tripolje took place in November 1402 between the Serbian Despotate and the Brankovic family. The Brankovic family, who were attempting to seize the Serbian throne for themselves, entered the battle along with Turkish troops given to them by Suleiman, and were decisively defeated by...
in 1402(Serbian Despotate victory over rebel Serbs backed by Ottoman troops) - Siege of Novo Brdo in 1412
- Crusade of VarnaCrusade of VarnaThe Crusade of Varna was a string of events in 1443–44 between the Kingdom of Hungary, the Serbian Despotate, the Principality of Wallachia and the Ottoman Empire...
in 1443 - Battle of Kosovo (1448)Battle of Kosovo (1448)The Second Battle of Kosovo was fought at Kosovo Polje between a coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary and Wallachia led by John Hunyadi, against an Ottoman-led coalition under Sultan Murad II.-Background:At 1448, John Hunyadi saw the right moment to lead a campaign against...
- Battle of KruševacBattle of KruševacThe Battle of Kruševac was fought in 1454 between the forces of the Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire....
in 1454 - Battle of LeskovacBattle of LeskovacThe Battle of Leskovac took place on September 24, 1454. After the successful route of the Ottomans under Firuz Bey at the Battle of Kruševac at the hands of the Serbian despot and his allies, two Serbian armies were set up, one in Kosovo, and the other in Dubočica, which is now known as Leskovac...
in 1454 - Siege of Belgrade in 1456
- conquest of SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
in 1459 - conquest of MontenegroZeta-Science:* Zeta functions, in mathematics** Riemann zeta function* Zeta potential, the electrokinetic potential of a colloidal system* Tropical Storm Zeta , formed in December 2005 and lasting through January 2006* Z-pinch, in fusion power...
in 1499
In 1471, a renewed Serbian principality as a vassal of Hungary was created. Up until its demise in 1540 , it spent its entirety fighting the Turks. The state usually provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary.
- Battle of BreadfieldBattle of BreadfieldThe Battle of Breadfield was the most tremendous conflict fought in Transylvania up to that time in the Hungarian-Turkish Wars taking place on October 13, 1479, on the Breadfield Zsibód near the Maros River...
in 1479
Serbian rebellions
- Long War (Ottoman wars)Long War (Ottoman wars)The Long War took place from 1591 or 1593 to 1604 or 1606 and was one of the numerous military conflicts between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire that developed after the Battle of Mohács.- History :The major participants of this war were the Habsburg Monarchy ,...
(1593–1606) - Banat Uprising (1594)
- Great Turkish WarGreat Turkish WarThe Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and contemporary European powers, then joined into a Holy League, during the second half of the 17th century.-1667–1683:...
(1683–1699) - Kočina Krajina Serb rebellionKocina Krajina Serb rebellionKoča's frontier rebellion was an uprising of Serbs against the Ottoman Empire from February 1788 - September 7, 1788. Koča Andjelković was the leader of the uprising which was aided by the Habsburg Empire...
(1788) - Herzegovina UprisingHerzegovina UprisingSeveral uprisings were led by Serbs and Croats in the region of Herzegovina, then under Ottoman rule:*1852-1878 Uprising*1875-1878 Uprising*1882 Uprising...
(1875-1878)
Liberation of Serbia
- First Serbian UprisingFirst Serbian UprisingThe First Serbian Uprising was the first stage of the Serbian Revolution , the successful wars of independence that lasted for 9 years and approximately 9 months , during which Serbia perceived itself as an independent state for the first time after more than three centuries of Ottoman rule and...
in 1804- Battle of IvankovacBattle of IvankovacThe Battle of Ivankovac was the first full-scale confrontation between the Serbian rebels and the official forces of the Ottoman Empire, during the First Serbian Uprising...
- Battle of MišarBattle of MisarThe Battle of Mišar took place from 12 to 15 August 1806, with a Serbian victory over the Ottomans. Much of the Ottoman commanding core was killed during the battle....
- Battle of DeligradBattle of DeligradThe Battle of Deligrad was fought between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire in 1806.-The battle:The First Serbian Uprising had begun in 1804 with the expulsion of the ruling janissary elite and the proclamation of an independent Serbian state by the revolution's leader, Karageorge. The Ottoman Sultan,...
- Siege of Belgrade
- Battle of ČegarBattle of CegarThe Battle of Čegar was an engagement in the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.On May 31, 1809, the most prominent trench on Čegar Hill, under the command of Stevan Sinđelić, was attacked by the Ottoman troops. The battle lasted the whole day. As Milovan Kukić witnessed, the Ottoman...
- Battle of Salaš
- Battle of Čokešini
- Battle of Loznica
- Battle of Varvarin
- Battle of Negotin
- Battle of Štubik
- Battle of Malajnica
- Battle of Ivankovac
- Second Serbian UprisingSecond Serbian UprisingThe Second Serbian Uprising was a second phase of the Serbian revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire, in 1813. The occupation was enforced following the defeat of the First Serbian Uprising , during which Serbia...
in 1815- Battle of LjubićBattle of LjubićThe Battle of Ljubić was a pitched battle between the rebelling Serbs of Miloš Obrenović and the Ottoman Turks, commanded by Caja-paša on the Ljubić hill, near Čačak...
- Battle of Ljubić
- Serbo-Montenegrin-Turkish War in 1858-1862
- Battle of GrahovacBattle of GrahovacThe Battle of Grahovac occurred from 28 April to 1 May 1858, when the Grand Duke Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, elder brother of Knjaz Danilo, led a strong army of 7,500 and won a crucial battle against the Turks at Grahovac. The Turkish forces were routed...
in 1858
- Battle of Grahovac
- Serbian -Ottoman War (1876-1877) (Ottoman victory, no territorial changes due to threats of Russian intervention)
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- Battle of Izvor
- Battle of ŠumatovacBattle of SumatovacThe Battle of Šumatovac happened in 1876, in central Serbia, near the town of Aleksinac. The outnumbered Serbian army, led by colonel Kosta Protić, won a tactical victory in this defensive battle against the Ottoman forces...
- Battle of Veliki Šiljegovac
- Battle of Krevet
- Battle of Đunis
- Battle of Javor
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- Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
- Serbian -Ottoman War (1877-1878) (Serbian victory, Turkey cedes Nish and surrounding land to Principality of Serbia)
- Siege of Pirot
- Siege of Niš
- Battle of Samokovo
- Montenegrin-Ottoman War (1876-1878)Montenegrin-Ottoman War (1876-1878)The Montenegrin-Ottoman War was a war between Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire that took place between 1876 and 1878. The war ended with Montenegro victorious...
- Battle of Vučji DoBattle of Vucji DoThe Battle of Vučji Do was a major battle that took place on 18 July 1876 in Vučji Do, Herzegovina in Ottoman Empire . The battle was fought between Montenegrins and Herzegovinians versus the Ottoman Turks...
(18 July 1876) - Battle of FundinaBattle of FundinaThe Battle of Fundina took place on 2 August 1876 in Fundina, a village in Kuči, Principality of Montenegro.The Montenegrin Army was led by the two Montenegrin dukes, Ilija Plamenac and Marko Miljanov, who had about 5,000 people uder their direct command...
(2 August 1877) - Battle of Medun
- Battle of Trijebca
- Battle of Spuž
- Battle of Doljani
- Battle of Vučji Do
- Serbian -Ottoman War (1877-1878) (Serbian victory, Turkey cedes Nish and surrounding land to Principality of Serbia)
- First Balkan WarFirst Balkan WarThe First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...
1912- Battle of KumanovoBattle of KumanovoThe Battle of Kumanovo or Battle of Kumanova on 23 – 24 October 1912 was a major battle of the First Balkan War. It was an important Serbian victory over the Ottoman army in Vardar Macedonia, shortly after the outbreak of the war...
- Battle of PrilepBattle of PrilepThe Battle of Prilep or Battle of Pirlepe in the First Balkan War took place on November 3, 1912. The Serbian army encountered Ottoman troops near the town of Prilep, in today's Republic of Macedonia...
- Battle of BitolaBattle of BitolaThe Battle of Monastir took place near the town of Bitola, Macedonia during the First Balkan War, from 16 to 19 November 1912. As an ongoing part of the Balkan Wars, the Ottoman Vardar Army retreated from the defeat at Kumanovo and regrouped around Bitola...
- Siege of AdrianopleBattle of Adrianople (1913)The Battle or Siege of Adrianople or Siege of Edirne was fought during the First Balkan War, beginning in mid-November 1912 and ending on 26 March 1913 with the capture of Edirne by the Bulgarian 2nd Army....
- Siege of ShkoderSiege of ShkoderThe Siege of Scutari took place from October 28, 1912 to April 23, 1913, between allied forces of Montenegro and Serbia against forces of the Ottoman Empire and the Provisional Government of Albania.-Naming:...
- Battle of Kumanovo