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    John Hunyadi (Hungarian: Hunyadi János; Romanian: Ioan de Hunedoara; Croatian: Janko Hunjadi; Serbian: Сибињанин Јанко, romanized: Sibinjanin Janko; c...
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    Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, John Hunyadi (acting as commander of the combined Christian forces) and Mircea II of...
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    the command of Sultan Murad II defeated the Crusader army of regent John Hunyadi. After that battle, the path was clear for the Turks to conquer Serbia...
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    (1387–1437). In the next decades, a talented military commander, John Hunyadi, directed the fight against the Ottomans. His victory at Nándorfehérvár...
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  • successfully identified the DNA profile of the last two male members of the Hunyadi family by next-generation sequencing technology, and the genetic study...
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    regions and Transylvania upheld Władysław and his partisans, among them John Hunyadi who became a leading political and military figure in Hungary. In order...
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    reign of the King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. According to this, John Hunyadi was Sigismund's illegitimate son. Sigismund gave a ring to the boy's mother...
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    405 A140 Schwanengesang und Marsch aus Hunyadi László pf 1847 Piano, arr. based on themes from the opera Hunyadi László by Ferenc Erkel 405a V4 Pásztor...
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    their European campaigns, mostly against the Christian forces led by Janos Hunyadi. In 1440 Skanderbeg was appointed sanjakbey of Dibra. During his stay in...
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    Jan Długosz (redirect from Jean Dlugosz)
    of Halshany and King Casimir to conduct peace negotiations between John Hunyadi and the Bohemian noble Jan Jiskra of Brandýs, and after six days' of talks...
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    Black Army of Hungary (category Hunyadi family)
    this early standing mercenary army appeared in the era of his father John Hunyadi in the early 1440s. The idea of the professional standing mercenary army...
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    built the first stone fortification, the Angevin fortress. In 1443 John Hunyadi restored the castle and the surrounding walls, which had been destroyed...
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    1444 and four years later crushed the last Hungarian expedition. John Hunyadi and Giovanni da Capistrano organised a 1456 Crusade to lift the Siege of...
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    hadvezérek: Hunyadi János (Great Warlords: János Hunyadi) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Anno Publisher. ISBN 963-9066-66-4. Froissart, Jean (1400). Froissart's...
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    at Kosovo Polje during Hunyadi's lifetime, the kingdom fell to the Ottomans in the 16th century. Branković also captured Hunyadi at Smederevo for a short...
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    Hungarian divisions followed: the 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) and the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian)...
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    the Ottomans, so a broad Christian coalition of Hungarians (under John Hunyadi), Serbs (under Despot Đurađ) and Romanians (under Vlad II Dracul) advanced...
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    Syro-Arabian desert by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. László Hunyadi (1457) – executed by Ladislaus V for plotting against him Gurgen Margaryan...
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  • military orders: expanding the frontiers of Latin Christianity; Zsolt Hunyadi page 226 Valeriia Fol, Bulgaria: History Retold in Brief, (Riga, 1999)...
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    during the Battle of Niš, while fighting against the crusaders of John Hunyadi. According to some earlier sources, Skanderbeg deserted the Ottoman army...
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    Budak, Neven (2001). "John of Palisna, the Hospitaller Prior of Varna". In Hunyadi, Zsolt; Laszlovszky, Jozsef (eds.). The Crusades and the Military Orders:...
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    distant hope that the lights were the campfires of the troops of John Hunyadi who had come to relieve the city. It is possible that all these phenomena...
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    Decebalus, Trajan's Dacian opponent, was carved in rock in 1994–2004.) John Hunyadi and his 15,000 men defeated the 80,000-strong army of Beylerbey Şehabeddin...
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  • of Anghiari. 1441 Early. John Hunyadi appointed as Voivode of Transylvania by Władysław III. 1442 18 March. John Hunyadi defeats an Ottoman army at the...
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  • making references to the Budai Nagy Antal Revolt, to the careers of John Hunyadi, his son Matthias Corvinus, and Nicolaus Olahus (viewing all three as Romanians...
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    Kingdom was placed in the hands of Count John Hunyadi, who became Hungary's regent-governor (1446–1453). Hunyadi was considered one of the most relevant military...
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  • important fortified mining town of Serbia. 1443 Battle of Niš November - John Hunyadi defeated three Ottoman armies before retreating. Battle of Zlatica December...
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  • 1449 2 months (disputed) A Croatian-Hungarian aristocrat sent by John Hunyadi to depose Roman II in favor of Peter III, but said to have reigned himself...
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    1451 to May 1481. In his first reign, he defeated the crusade led by John Hunyadi after the Hungarian incursions into his country broke the conditions of...
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    Hungary. A key figure in Transylvania at this time was John Hunyadi (c. 1387 or 1400–1456). Hunyadi was awarded a number of estates (becoming one of the foremost...
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