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Serbia in the Middle Ages had an army that was well known for its strength and was among the strongest in the Balkans prior to the Ottoman conquest of Europe.Prior to the 14th century, the army consisted of European-style noble cavalry armed with bows and lances (replaced with crossbows in the 14th century) and infantry armed with spears, javelins and bows.
The incursion of Turkish troops into the Principality of Moravian Serbia, probably after military operations in Bulgaria; Serbian forces of Prince Lazar, led by commanders Vitomir and Crep defeated the invading Ottoman Turks of Sultan Murad I in the battle of Dubravnica [134] Albanian-Epirote War (1381–84) Despotate of Epirus. Thomas Preljubović
Serbia and Montenegro invade and defeat Ottoman forces and capture Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Albania and Central Albania. The Serbian army commits massacres against Albanians living in the occupied territories. Serbia forms Drač County and other counties on Albanian-populated lands captured from the Ottomans.
Pages in category "Serbian military personnel of World War I" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the Serbian occupation of Albania under Stefan Dušan, one of the most notable resistances was that of the Muzaka Principality led by Andrea II Muzaka.The Muzaka forces besieged and eventually captured the city of Berat in 1350, forcing the Serbian governor of the lands between Berat and Vlora, John Komnenos Asen, to retreat to Kanina. [3]
The modern Serbian military dates back to the Serbian revolution which started in 1804 with the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman occupation of Serbia.The victories in the battles of Ivankovac (1805), Mišar (August 1806), Deligrad (December 1806) and Belgrade (November–December 1806), led to the establishment of the Principality of Serbia in 1817.
A mass murder of Serbian men by Bulgarian occupational authorities occurred in the southern Serbian town of Surdulica between 1915 and 1916, during World War I.Members of the Serbian intelligentsia in the region, mostly functionaries, teachers, priests and former soldiers, were detained by Bulgarian forces—ostensibly so that they could be deported to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia—before ...
In 1471, the Serbian Despotate was renewed in exile as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Hungary and continued to exist until the mid-16th century. [1] [4] [5] Up until its demise in 1540, it spent its entirety fighting against the Ottoman Empire. [1] [4] [5] The Serbian Despotate provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary ...