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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 large-scale Crusades of the Middle Ages, together with the Crusade of Varna in 1443–1444. By their victory...
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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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    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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    Crusades of the 15th century are those Crusades that follow the Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399, throughout the next hundred years. In this time period...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Julian Cesarini (category Christians of the Crusade of Varna)
    10 November 1444 in Varna, Ottoman Empire) was one of the group of brilliant cardinals created by Pope Martin V on the conclusion of the Western Schism...
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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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    larger Crusade of Varna. The battle was fought at Zlatitsa Pass (Bulgarian: Златишки проход) (Turkish: Izladi Derbendi) near the town of Zlatitsa in the...
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    sieges and landings Timeline of Turks (500-1300) Timeline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm List of Ottoman Empire territories List of cities conquered by the...
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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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  • 《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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    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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    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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    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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  • Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1439–44) Crusade of Varna Battle of Nish (1443) Battle of Zlatitsa in 1443 Battle of Kunovica in 1444 Siege of Smederevo in 1453...
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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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    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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