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Thopian-Zetan War (1385) Principality of Albania Ottoman Empire: Principality of Zeta: Victory. Albanian - Ottoman forces defeat Zetan forces. Balsha II is killed in the Battle of Savra. Albanian-Epirote War of 1389–90 [4] Despotate of Arta (all four battles) Malakasi Tribe (second battle) Despotate of Epirus (all four battles) Thessaly ...
Woodcut depicting an engagement between Albanian and Ottoman forces. On 14 May 1448, an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II and his son Mehmed laid siege to the castle of Svetigrad. The Albanian garrison in the castle resisted the frontal assaults of the Ottoman army, while Skanderbeg harassed the besieging forces with the remaining Albanian ...
Among these, the battles fought in the 20th century (Turco-Italian War, Balkan Wars, and World War I ) as well as the sieges (like the sieges of Constantinople, Cairo, Belgrade, Bagdad, etc.) which most lists include as battles are not shown except in cases where the siege is followed by a battle (i.e. Vienna, Khotyn, Plevna). [1] [2]
Ottoman Albania was a period in Albanian history from the Ottoman conquest in the late 15th century to the Albanian declaration of Independence and official secession from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. The Ottomans first entered Albania in 1385 upon the invitation of the Albanian noble Karl Thopia to suppress the forces of the noble Balša II ...
Russo-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Russian Empire Cossack Hetmanate: Inconclusive. Azov Castle was destroyed, its territory became the border between the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Russians will withdraw from Crimea. Ottoman Empire cedes Azov to Russia. Treaty of Niš; 1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Habsburg monarchy: Victory
The Battle of Ohrid (Albanian: Beteja e Ohrit) took place on 14 or 15 September 1464 between Albanian ruler Skanderbeg's forces and Ottoman forces. A crusade against Sultan Mehmed II had been planned by Pope Pius II with Skanderbeg as one of its main leaders. The battle near Ohrid occurred as a result of an Albanian incursion into Ottoman ...
The battle thus opened a new phase in the Ottoman-Albanian war which saw the high-water mark of the Albanian resistance and the fiercest Ottoman invasions of Albania in the war. [27] The war would last until the fall of Krujë in 1478. [32] The Albanian feminine first name Albulena, originating as a reference to the battle, is still in use today.
The long six-year war for Russia took place in parallel with the Russo-Persian War, the Russo-Swedish War and the War of the Fourth Coalition. Despite this, in the decisive campaign of 1811, the Russian army of Kutuzov defeated the Ottoman army on the Danube , which made it possible to conclude a peace treaty beneficial for Russia, according to ...