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    romanized: Opsada Beograda) was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred 4–22 July 1456 in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 marking...
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    the Ottoman Empire during the siege in 1456 have remained a widespread church tradition to this day. In 1521, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottomans and...
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    The siege of Belgrade was a successful attempt by Habsburg troops under the command of the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian II Emanuel to capture the city...
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  • Retrieved 7 July 2009. Kovach, Tom R. "Ottoman-Hungarian Wars: Siege of Belgrade in 1456". Military History magazine. Archived from the original on 26...
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    "the Soldier Saint" when in 1456 at age 70 he led a Crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire at the siege of Belgrade with the Hungarian military commander...
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    cardinal, and Borgia became a member of the Roman Curia. During the siege of Belgrade (1456), Callixtus initiated the custom that bells be rung at midday to...
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    by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1456 to conquer the fortress was prevented by Janos Hunyadi (Siege of Belgrade), saving Hungary from Ottoman dominion...
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    Romanian: Ioan de Hunedoara; Croatian: Janko Hunjadi; Serbian: Сибињанин Јанко, romanized: Sibinjanin Janko; c. 1406 – 11 August 1456) was a leading Hungarian...
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    Attack Munition guided bombs hit the People's Republic of China embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists of state-owned media and outraging the...
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  • following is a timeline of the history of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. History of Belgrade Siege of Belgrade (disambiguation) Chapman, John (1981). The...
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  • Wars Siege of Marienburg (1454) – Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) Siege of Berat (1455) Siege of Belgrade (1456) – Part of Ottoman wars in Europe Siege of...
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    John Hunyadi and Giovanni da Capistrano organised a 1456 Crusade to lift the Siege of Belgrade. Æneas Sylvius and John of Capistrano preached the Crusade...
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    the defenses of the fortress. The Siege of Belgrade began as a military blockade of Belgrade on 4 July 1456. The siege escalated into a major battle, during...
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    The siege of Buda (4 May – 21 August 1541) ended with the capture of the city of Buda, the historical capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, by the Ottoman...
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    point, some 5 km (3.1 mi) away from Belgrade. On 18 June the city was surrounded, and thus the Siege of Belgrade had commenced. Eugene deployed his artillery...
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    Đurađ Branković (category 1456 deaths)
    Sultan Mehmed II launched the siege of Belgrade and its large Hungarian garrison. Despot Đurađ died at the end of 1456, due to complications stemming...
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    of Despot Stefan Lazarević. After the death of Despot Đurađ Branković in 1456, the Despotate continued to exist for another three years before it finally...
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    The Fall of Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Пад Београда, German: Der Fall von Belgrad) was a military engagement between the joint armies of Austria-Hungary...
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    Battle of Kolubara (category Belgrade in World War I)
    Serbian army to undertake a series of retreats. The Serbs withdrew from Belgrade on 29–30 November, and the city soon fell under Austro-Hungarian control...
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  • 28 July 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and bombarded Belgrade. On 12 August, the Austro-Hungarian forces, led by General Oskar Potiorek...
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  • Jenštejn John of Capistrano (1386–1456), Italian friar, summoner of European troops for the 1456 siege of Belgrade John Cantius (1390–1473), Polish priest...
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    advancing to Central and Western Europe. Hunyadi succeeded during the siege of Belgrade in 1456 against the Ottomans, the biggest victory against that empire...
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    commanders assassinated the Ottoman Pasha and took control of the Pashalik of Belgrade, ruling it independently of the Ottoman Sultan. This led to a period of...
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    waves of bombs dropped by NATO bombers on targets on the outskirts of Belgrade. Zelko landed around a mile/kilometre from his aircraft's crash site, and...
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    Ulrich II, Count of Celje (category 1456 deaths)
    father's vast wealth; and after the death of John Hunyadi at the Siege of Belgrade in 1456, he was named Captain General of Hungary by Ladislaus, an office...
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    After the Siege of Belgrade, Suleiman I settled Serbs in the nearby Forest of Constantinople, in present-day Bahçeköy, known as Belgrade forest. European...
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    (assisted by the Venetian navy) at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis and leading to the end of the Second...
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    Mehmed II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    and the attempt was repulsed. While Mehmed II was away laying siege to Belgrade in 1456, the Ottoman governor of Amasya attacked Trebizond, and although...
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    threatening the Serbian west flank and the north of Belgrade. That same day Austro-Hungarian troops enter Belgrade, hard hand to hand fighting ensued. Facing overwhelming...
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    књига прва". Belgrade: Издање задужбине И. М. Коларца. Đorđević, Vladan (1908). "Историја српско-бугарског рата 1885 - књига друга". Belgrade: Издање задужбине...
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