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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 ...
In 1371, the river was the site of the Battle of Maritsa, also known as the battle of Chernomen, an Ottoman victory over the Serbian rulers Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa, who died in the battle. After 1923, the river gained political significance as the modern border between Greece and Turkey.
Michael Shishman and Andronikos III met at Chernomen on the Byzantine–Bulgarian border in May 1327. Since the negotiations were supposed to be secret, they used for pretext the desire of the Byzantine empress Rita of Armenia to meet her daughter Maria Palaiologina, whom she had not seen for 23 years and Andronikos III was allegedly anxious to see his sister as well. [5]
Ormenio (Greek: Ορμένιο, romanized: Orménio; 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.
According to some sources, [3] this battle and Battle of Maritsa (Battle of Chernomen) was one and the same battle. According to Turkish sources, Sirpsindiği and the Battle of Maritsa were two separate battles, [ 5 ] and that the Serbian loss in Sırpsındığı was one of the main reasons for the Battle of Maritsa, where the Serbs avenged the ...
Second Bulgarian Empire, 1331–1371 The defeat of the anti-Ottoman coalition in the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 was the final blow leading to the fall of the Bulgarian Empire. On 26 September 1371, the Ottomans defeated a large Christian army led by the Serbian brothers Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa in the Battle of Chernomen.
Immediately after the battle, the armies of Murad I embarked on another campaign overrunning Northern Thrace and forcing young Ivan Shishman to pull back north of the Balkan Mountains. A number of fortresses fell, through after prolonged and fierce sieges: the town of Diampol, for instance, fought against the forces of Timurtash for months but ...
Battle of Buzhyn (battles near Buzhyn Carriage) was a battle of 27–28 August 1677 between the Russian-Ukrainian army under the command of Prince Grigory Romodanovsky and Hetman Ivan Samoilovich, and the Turkish-Crimean troops of Ibrahim Pasha ("Shaitan") and Khan Selim-Girey during the Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681).