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| | The Battle of Varna, 1444 |
 | | In the Battle of Varna, the mixed Christian army of Polish and Hungarian forces, Bulgarians, Czechs, papal knights, Bosnians, Croatians, Romanians and Routeni (Old Russians) under the young King of Poland Wladyslaw III Jagelo was defeated by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Murad II. |
 | | After the Battle of Varna, the son of Murad - Mehmed II brought an end to the Byzantine Empire by capturing Constantinople in 1453 (during the well-known Siege of Constantinople), and other Christian cities left in the Balkans and Anatolia. |
 | | In 1924, on a Thracian hill, in the centre of the battlefield, where in 1444 Christian military troops, led by Wladyslaw III Jagelo and Janos Hunyadi, met in a cruel battle the 120 000 army of the Ottoman ruler Mourad II, was erected a modest monument. |
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