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The Battle of Maritsa or Battle of Chernomen (Serbian: Marička bitka / Маричка битка; Turkish: Çirmen Muharebesi, İkinci Meriç Muharebesi in tr. Second Battle of Maritsa) took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (present-day Ormenio, Greece) on 26 September 1371 between Ottoman forces commanded by Lala Shahin Pasha and Evrenos, and Serbian forces commanded ...
Ormenio (Greek: Ορμένιο, Turkish: Çirmen, Bulgarian: Черномен, romanized: Chernomen) is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono in the Evros regional unit of Thrace. It is situated near the right bank of the river Evros, which forms the border with Bulgaria here. On the other side of ...
The Bulgarian–Ottoman wars were fought between the kingdoms remaining from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 14th century. The wars resulted in the collapse and subordination of the Bulgarian Empire, and effectively came to an end with the Ottoman conquest of Tarnovo in July 1393, [3 ...
Operation Spring Awakening (German: Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) was the last major German offensive of World War II. The operation was referred to in Germany as the Plattensee Offensive and in the Soviet Union as the Balaton Defensive Operation. It took place in Western Hungary on the Eastern Front and lasted from 6 March until 15 March 1945.
Battle of Chosin Reservoir. A column of the US 1st Marine Division moves through Chinese lines during its breakout from the Chosin Reservoir with a M46 Patton medium tank. Chinese forces recover northeastern Korea; UN withdraw to and evacuate from Hungnam. The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Battle ...
The Battle at Lake Changjin is one of the most expensive films ever made, with a production budget of over US$200 million. [22] Shooting began in Beijing on 25 October 2020, and ended on 25 May 2021. [23][24] 70,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers acted as extras. [21] Part of the film was shot in Zhangjiakou, [25][26] and part was shot on ...
The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal Barca ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War. The battle took place on the north shore of Lake Trasimene , to the south of Cortona , and resulted in a heavy defeat for the Romans.
93 wounded. 306 captured. entire squadron captured. The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy.