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	Maritsa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Maritsa (Turkish Meriç; Greek Évros), river in southeastern Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula.
		The Maritsa or Evros (Bulgarian : Марица, Greek : Εβρος, Romanized as Hebrus, Turkish : Meriç) is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the...
		The Battle of Maritsa or Battle of Chernomen took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (today Ormenio in Greece) on September 26, 1371 between the forces of...
	encarta.msn.com /Maritsa.html (167 words)

	Murad I - LoveToKnow 1911
		MURAD surnamed Khudavendighiar (1319-1389), was the son of Orkhan and the Greek princess Nilofer, and succeeded his father in He was the first Turkish monarch to obtain a definite footing in Europe, and his main object throughout his career was to extend the European dominions of Turkey.
		The revolts of the prince of Caramania interfered with the realization of this plan, and trouble was caused from this quarter more than once during his reign until the decisive battle of Konia (1387), when the power of the prince of Caramania was broken.
		The state of Europe facilitated Murad's projects: civil war and anarchy prevailed in most of the countries of Central Europe, where the feudal system was at its last gasp, and the small Balkan states were divided by mutual jealousies.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Murad_I (398 words)

	chronological 1300 and later
		July 20: Battle of Ankara: The Ottoman sultan Bajazet, great-grandson of Osman I, is defeated and taken prisoner by Mongol warlord Timur at Ankara.
		October 07: Battle of Lepanto (Aynabakhti): Muslim Turks commanded by Ali Pasha are defeated in the Gulf of Corinth by an alliance of European forces (The Holy League) under the command of Don Juan of Austria.
		Battle of Slankamen: Austrians under Prince Louis of Baden crush the Ottoman Turks and are thus able to liberate large portions of Hungary.
	www.allcrusades.com /CHRONOLOGICAL/chrono-1300.html (6094 words)

	The American Journal of Russian and Slavic Studies
		The issue of the battle was for some time in doubt, but was decided by the treachery and flight at the critical moment of one of the Serb leaders, Vuk Brankovi['c], son-in-law of Prince Lazar, with a large number of troops.
		From the effects of this battle Serbia never recovered; Prince Lazar was captured and executed; his wife, Princess Milica, had to give her daughter to Bayezid in marriage, whose son thus ultimately claimed possession of Serbia by right of inheritance.
		The Turkish conquest of Serbia, which began in 1371 at the battle of the Maritsa, and was rendered inevitable by the battle of Kosovo Polje, in 1389, thus took a hundred and twenty-five years to complete.
	www.rusjournal.com /forbes.html (3243 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: First Balkan War
		The battle of Lule-Burgas was a battle between the Bulgarians and the Ottomans.
		The Battle of Elli was a naval battle that took place between the Ottoman Empire and Greece during the Balkan Wars.
		The Battle of Adrianople, Siege of Adrianople, Bulgarian Battle of Odrin or Serbian Battle of Jedrene during the First Balkan War began in mid-November, 1912 and ended with the capture of Adrianople by the Bulgarian 2nd Army under the command of General Vazov (brother of the famous Bulgarian writer...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/First-Balkan-War (5284 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Serbian Campaign (World War I)
		Early in 1915, with the Ottoman defeats at the Battle of Sarikamis and in the First Suez Offensive, the German Chief of the General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn tried to convince the Austrian Chief of Staff, Conrad von Hotzendorf, of the importance of conquering Serbia.
		With the Allied loss in the Battle of Gallipoli and the Russian defeat at Gorlice, King Ferdinand signed a treaty with Germany and on September 23, 1915 began mobilizing for war.
		With the Bulgarian breakthrough (battle of Morava, battle of Ovche Pole, Battle of Kosovo (1915)), the Serbian position was hopeless; either their main army in the north would be surrounded and forced to surrender, or it could try to retreat.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Serbian-Campaign-(World-War-I) (6109 words)

	Ottoman wars in Europe
		Its first significant opponent was the young Serbian Empire, which was worn down by a series of campaigns, notably in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, in which the leaders of both armies were killed, and which gained a central role in Serbian folklore as an epic battle and beginning of bad luck for Serbia.
		The 1566 Battle of Szigetvar, the third siege in which the fort was finally taken but the aged Sultan died, deterred that year's push for Vienna.
		After winning the Battle of Vienna, the Holy League gained the upper hand, and conducted the re-conquest of Hungary (Buda and Pest, the former under the command of a Swiss-born convert to Islam, were retaken in 1686.) This war ended with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.
	www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Ottoman_wars_in_Europe (1780 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battle of Kosovo between the Serbs and Ottomans; both the Serbian Prince Lazar of Serbia and Murad I are killed in the Turkish defeat of the Serbs and Bosnians
		Battle of Varna (on the Black Sea); the crusading forces of King Ladislas of Poland and Hungary are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II; Wladislaus III of Poland (b.
		Battle of Kosovo; Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi are defeated by the Turks due to the treachery of Prince Dan of Wallachia and George Brankovic of Serbia
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?srchstr=Turk (2690 words)

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		The issue of the battle was for some time in doubt, but was decided by the treachery and flight at the critical moment of one of the Serb leaders, Vuk Brankovic, son-in-law of Prince Lazar, with a large number of troops.
		From the effects of this battle Serbia never recovered; Prince Lazar was captured and executed; his wife, Princess Milica, had to give her daughter to Bajazet in marriage, whose son thus ultimately claimed possesion of Serbia by right of inheritance.
		The Turkish conquest of Serbia, which began in 1371 at the battle of the Maritsa, and was rendered inevitable by the battle of Kosovo Polje, in 1389, thus took a hundred and twenty-five years to complete.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Forbes1.html (3217 words)

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		The Battle of Levounion was the first decisive Byzantine victory of the Komnenian restoration.
		The battle marks a turning point in Byzantine history; the empire had reached the nadir of its fortunes in the last twenty years, and Levounion signalled to the world that now at last the empire was on the road to recovery.
		Thus the battle at Levounion in 1091 marked the beginning of a resurgence of Byzantine power and influence that would last for a hundred years, until the demise of the Komnenian dynasty at the close of the twelfth century.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Battle_of_Levounion (828 words)

	Tsar Samuil
		After the battle at Belasitsa in 1014, the army led by the emperor Vasilius defeated Samoil's army and 14.000 Samoil's soldiers were captured, blinded (every hundredth soldier was left with one eye) and sent to Czar Samoil, who had experienced a heart attack after the tragic scenery in Prilep.
		The decisive battle between Samuil and Basil II took place at the foot of Mt. Belasitsa on July 29, 1014.
		But after a series of dramatic battles, devastating campaigns and acts of treason throughout Samuil's empire, the last faithful commanders of Samuil, Ivec and Nikolica, were defeated in the summer of 1018 and Ohrid taken.
	www.mymacedonia.net /history/samoil.htm (2109 words)

	Battle of Manzikert Outcome Turkish August 26 Byzantine Empire Nicephorus Bryennius Ani French Varangian Guard August ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Manzikert (Turkish Malazgirt Savaşı) occurred on August 26, 1071 between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turkish forces led by Alp Arslan, resulting in the defeat of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes.
		There were no engagements that day, but on August 26 the Byzantine army gathered itself into a proper battle formation and began to march on the Turkish positions, with the left wing under Bryennius, the right wing under Theodore Alyates, and the centre under the emperor.
		Battle of Manzikert, A.D. Battle of the Margus River, A.D. 285 Battle of Maritsa River, AD 1371 Siege of Masada, A.D. 73 Battle of the Milvian Bridge, A.D. www.roman-emperors.org/battles.htm
	en.powerwissen.com /FRzcv6EBdHk5mN0IDkzSkQ%3D%3D_Battle_of_Manzikert.html (1388 words)

	Turkish War of Independence - All About Turkey
		The final drive against the Greeks began in August 1922 with a battle called as the Battle of the Commander in Chief.
		A crisis was averted when Atatürk accepted a British - proposed truce that brought an end to fighting in the region between the Turks and the Greeks and also signaled that the Allies were unwilling to intervene on the side of Greece.
		The armistice accepted a continued Allied presence on the straits and in Istanbul until a comprehensive settlement could be reached.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /kurtulus.htm (996 words)

	Battle of Kosovo by Seth Ward (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The second Battle of Kosovo, in 1448, involved individuals still celebrated as national heroes in Hungary and even Albania, and was the last stepping stone on the way to Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and its domination of southeastern Europe until the twentieth century.
		By capturing the Maritsa valley, he isolated the Bulgarians and Serbians from the Byzantines, cut off a major Byzantine source of taxes and wheat, and forced them to conclude a treaty with him in 1363.
		Murat was killed; some say on the dawn of the battle he was killed by Milosh Kobilic, another of Lazar's sons in law, who gained access to the Ottomans by posing as a deserter.
	www.du.edu /~sward/kosovo.html (3836 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hence, the main forces were formed in three armies for the advance towards Skopje, while a division and an independent brigade were to cooperate with the Montenegrins in the Sanjak of Novi Pazar.
		The Third Army was commanded by General BoÅ¾idar JankoviÄ and, being the right-wing army, had the task to liberate Kosovo and then join the other armies in the expected battle at the OvÄe Polje.
		Greece was considered the weakest of the three main allies, since it had suffered a humiliating defeat against the Ottomans in 1897, and was not expected to contribute decisively against the Turkish army.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=First_Balkan_War (1803 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Serbs
		In 1371 the Turks inflicted their first major defeat on the Serbs at a battle on the Maritsa river in modern-day Bulgaria.
		In 1389 they met them in battle again at Kosovo, after which Serbia's rulers were forced to their knees and made to pay tribute to the sultans until their lands were finally overrun in 1459.
		While these migrations began after the defeat at the Battle on the Maritsa and continued as Serbs, and other Christians, moved into the semi-free vassal Serbia, far larger migrations began after its fall in 1459.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/serbs.htm (6986 words)

	Murad I
		His moves in the Balkans brought together a Christian coalition under the king of Hungary, but they were defeated at the Battle of Maritsa on September 26, 1371 by Murad's capable second lieutenant Lalaşahin, the first governor (Beylerbey) of Rumili.
		In 1366 the Serbian king was forced to pay tribute to the Sultan and in 1385 Sofia fell to the Ottomans.
		Murad was assassinated by Miloš Kobilic, a Serbian noble, during the Battle of Kosovo.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Murad_I (347 words)

	Sretensky Stavropeghial Monastery
		In 1371 the Osmanli cavalry had utterly annihilated the troops of Macedonian governors at the Battle of Maritsa.
		The Muslim army defeated the Serbs in the bloody battle of Kosovo field in 1389.
		Only several years had passed since the battle of Kulikovo, victory in which was comparatively modest, but had decisive importance for the formation of the Russian state.
	www.pravoslavie.ru /english/sretmon.htm (2253 words)

	last minute History_of_Serbia - last-minute-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the Battle of MohÃ¡cs on August 29, 1526, Ottoman Turkey destroyed the army of Hungarian-Czech king Louis Jagellion, who was killed on the battlefield.
		After this battle Hungary ceased to be independent state and much of its former territory became part of the Ottoman Empire.
		Soon after the Battle of MohÃ¡cs, leader of Serbian mercenaries in Hungary, Jovan Nenad established his rule in BaÄka, northern Banat and a small part of Srem (These three regions are now parts of Vojvodina).
	www.last-minute-report.com /History_of_Serbia (1521 words)

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		He was the first Turkish monarch to obtain a definite footing in Europe, and his main object throughout his career was to extend the European dominions of Turkey.
		The revolts of the prince of Caramania interfered with the realization of this plan, and trouble was caused from this quarter more than once during his reign until the decisive battle of Konia (1387), when the power of the prince of Caramania was broken.
		The state of Europe facilitated Murad's projects: civil war and anarchy prevailed in most of the countries of Central Europe, where the feudal system was at its last gasp, and the small Balkan states were divided by mutual jealousies.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=46913&locale=en (431 words)

	Islamic History: The Ottoman Empire - ReligionFacts
		At the Battle of Maritsa, at the Maritsa River, Murad's second lieutenant Lalaşahin encountered a 70,000 man strong Serbian-Bulgarian army under the Serbian king Vukasin.
		The outcome of the Battle of Salonika was a setback for Murad and when Serbia and Hungary allied themselves with Venice, the young sultan was involved in one of the Ottoman Empire's worst conflicts ever, with all odds against it.
		In November 11, 1444, Murad defeated the Polish-Hungarian army of Janos Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.
	www.religionfacts.com /islam/history/ottoman.htm (7072 words)

	Murad I - InformationBlast
		His moves in the Balkans brought together a Christian coalition under the king of Hungary, but they were defeated at the Battle of Maritsa in 1363 (?) by Murad's capable second lieutenant Lalaşahin, the first governor (Beylerbey) of Rumili.
		In 1366 the Serbian king was forced to pay tribute to the Sultan and in 1385 Sofia fell to the Ottomans.
		Murad was assassinated by Miloš Kobilic, a Serbian noble, during the Battle of Kosovo.
	www.informationblast.com /Murad_I.html (264 words)

	Battle of Maritsa - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Despot UgljeÅ¡a wanted to make a surprise attack on the Ottomans in their capital city, Edirne, while Murad I was in Asia Minor.
		Macedonia and parts of Greece fell under Ottoman power after this battle.
		The battle was a part of the Ottoman campaign to conquer the Balkans and was preceded by the Ottoman capturing of Sozopol and succeeded by the capture of the cities of Drama, KavÃ¡la and Serres (SerrÃ¡i) in modern Greece.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Battle_of_Maritsa (240 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ottoman wars in Europe
		Though the Ottomans outnumbered his lone army by three to one, they suffered over forty thousand casualties at the hands of Dracula's guerrilla tactics before he was imprisoned by Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus over a political dispute.
		The 1566 Battle of Szigetvar, the third siege in which the fort was finally taken but the Sultan died, deterred that year's push for Vienna.
		After winning the Battle of Vienna, the Holy League gained the upper hand, and conducted the reconquest of Hungary (Buda and Pest, the former under the command of a Swiss-born convert to Islam, were retaken in 1686.) This war ended with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ottoman_wars_in_Europe (1837 words)

	Plovdiv - Definition, explanation
		Tt is located in the Thracianlowland on the riverbanks of Maritsa river and The Seven Hills.
		Under Ottoman rule, Plovdiv was a major center of the Bulgarian nationalist movement, and the first Bulgarian language printing house was built in the city.
		While the city was liberated from the Ottomans during the Battle of Plovdiv in 1878, it was not originally part of the newly established Principality of Bulgaria.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pl/plovdiv.php (395 words)

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