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    The Crusade of Varna was an unsuccessful military campaign mounted by several European leaders to check the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central...
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    forces) and Mircea II of Wallachia. It was the final battle of the unsuccessful Crusade of Varna, a last-ditch effort to prevent further Ottoman expansion...
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    Crusade of Nicopolis as it was one of the last big Crusades of the Middle Ages, together with the Crusade of Varna in 1443–1444. By their victory at Nicopolis...
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  • towns along the Black Sea coast. Crusade of Varna. The Crusade of Varna (1443–1444), also known as the Crusade to Varna, was an unsuccessful military campaign...
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  • Wallachia Crusade of Nicopolis Crusade of Varna Battle of Kosovo (1448) Night attack at Târgoviște Long Turkish War Battle of Călugăreni Battle of Giurgiu...
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    the late 14th century and include the Crusade of Varna. Popular crusades, including the Children's Crusade of 1212, were generated by the masses and...
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    aftermath of the Hungarian–Ottoman War (1437–1442), the papacy and papal legate Julian Cesarini urged Władysław to launch the Crusade of Varna. After initial...
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  • Polish–Ottoman Wars (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    Wars can refer to one of the several conflicts between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire: Crusade of Varna (1443–1444) Polish–Ottoman...
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    possession of the evacuated town of Smederevo. The peace was broken in the same year by Hunyadi and king Władysław III of Poland during the Crusade of Varna, which...
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    Vlad II Dracul (category Year of birth uncertain)
    4,000 horsemen to fight against the Ottomans during the Crusade of Varna. With the support of a Burgundian fleet, he captured the important Ottoman fortress...
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    Murad II (category Muslims of the Crusade of Varna)
    and Poland joined the Serbian-Hungarian coalition. Murad II won the Crusade of Varna in 1444 against John Hunyadi. Murad II relinquished his throne in 1444...
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    was also lost to the Ottomans. The Crusade of Nicopolis in 1396, Timur's invasion of 1402, and the Crusade of Varna in 1444 allowed a ruined Constantinople...
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  • III, king of Poland and Hungary, from continuing the Crusade of Varna. Polish historian Callimachus tells that the leaders of the crusade would not listen...
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    Hungarian–Ottoman Wars (category Kingdom of Hungary)
    the Hungarian lands. The initial Hungarian success culminated in the Crusade of Varna, though without significant outside support the Hungarians were defeated...
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    one-fifth of the papal income to the Crusade of Varna which set out in 1443, but which met with overwhelming defeat at the Battle of Varna. Following...
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    Christian coalition, including King Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi, resulting in the Crusade of Varna. The three met in Belgrade where they decided...
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    contemporary chronicle relating to the Crusade of Varna. He gives a valuable account of the impulsive love marriage of Edward IV to the obscure widow Elizabeth...
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  • Kasım Pasha (category Muslims of the Crusade of Varna)
    general and governor, the beylerbey of Rumelia and one of the commanders of the Ottoman forces during the Crusade of Varna (1443–44). When Rumelian beylerbey...
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    daughter of Serbian monarch Đurađ Branković and Eirene Kantakouzene. As the daughter of Despot Đurađ, wife of Sultan Murad II, and stepmother of Mehmed...
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  • (2006), The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45, Aldershot; Burlington (Vt.) : Ashgate, cop., p. 16, ISBN 978-0-7546-0144-9, OCLC 470458159, In the course of their flight...
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    Albania in the Middle Ages (category Medieval history of Albania)
    defeat in the Battle of Niš, during the Crusade of Varna. In 1444, Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg was proclaimed as the leader of the regional Albanian...
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    during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit shot down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft of the United States Air...
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  • 《越史略》載廣西被殺者“無慮十萬”。 《玉海》卷一九三上稱“兵夫三十萬人冒暑涉瘴地,死者過半”。 Jonathan Riley-Smith, the Crusades, 2005, p. 109 Grant, p. 89 Richard Gabriel, Subotai the Valiant. Grant...
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  • (1439–1444) Crusade of Varna Battle of Nish in 1443 Battle of Zlatitsa in 1443 Battle of Kunovica in 1444 Siege of Smederevo in 1453 Ottoman invasion of Serbia...
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    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church...
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    Dardanelles. The two armies clashed near Varna on 10 November. Although outnumbered by two to one, the crusaders initially ruled the battlefield against...
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    Varna (Bulgarian: Варна, pronounced [ˈvarnɐ]) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea...
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    Fruzhin (redirect from Fruzhin of Bulgaria)
    1435 on a secret diplomat mission of Sigismund. In 1444, he participated in Władysław III of Poland's Crusade of Varna, an attempt to drive the Ottoman...
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    The People's Crusade was the beginning phase of the First Crusade whose objective was to retake the Holy Land, and Jerusalem in particular, from Islamic...
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    Serbia. It was part of the larger Crusade of Varna. The Christian contingent began their retreat on 24 December 1443, after the Battle of Zlatica. The Ottoman...
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