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The siege of Belgrade, or siege of Nándorfehérvár (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma or nándorfehérvári diadal, lit. "Triumph of Nándorfehérvár"; Serbian Cyrillic: Опсада Београда, romanized: Opsada Beograda) was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred 4–22 July 1456 in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 marking the Ottomans' attempts to ...
The armistice of Belgrade was an agreement on the termination of World War I hostilities between the Triple Entente and the Kingdom of Hungary concluded in Belgrade on 13 November 1918. It was largely negotiated by General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey , as the commanding officer of the Allied Army of the Orient , and Hungarian Prime Minister ...
The forces attacking Belgrade were consisted of the Third Austro-Hungarian Army, as well as the German XXII Reserve Corps (Eleventh German Army). The Third Austro-Hungarian Army consisted of 130 infantry battalions, 136 artillery batteries, 4 aircraft divisions, as well as a Imperial and Royal Danube Flotilla with 9 monitors and 20 other ships. [2]
The Bombardment of Belgrade was an attack carried out by Austria-Hungary on the Serbian capital during the night of 28–29 July 1914. It is considered the first military action of World War I . The bombardment started hours after the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia . [ 2 ]
The siege of Belgrade (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma) in 1521 is an event that followed as a result of the third major Ottoman attack on this Hungarian stronghold in the Ottoman–Hungarian wars at the time of the greatest expansion of the Ottoman Empire to the west. Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launched his army in mid-May 1521.
In 1456, the Ottoman army tried to conquer Belgrade for the second time, but failed again. [4] [5] After the annexation of the Serbian Despotate by the Ottomans in 1459, further Ottoman expansion was directed towards Captaincy of Belgrade and neighboring Banate of Mačva. [6] By the end of the 15th century, captains of Belgrade were replaced by ...
A Hungarian army was defeated in German land at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955. Seven years later Otto I was rewarded for stopping the Hungarians and he was crowned Emperor by Pope John XII in 962 and the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) was established. [1] The Hungarian military presence stabilized the Hungarian state in the Carpathian Basin. 811
The Hungarian chivalric army was at its best during the reign of Louis I, who also led campaigns against Italy in 1347 and 1350. Nevertheless, there were still light cavalry units in the army, consisting of, among others, Szeklers and the settling Kuns. On the winter of 1458 the 15 years old Mathias Corvinus was elected as king by the Hungarian ...