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The Battle of Thermopylae (/ θ ər ˈ m ɒ p ɪ l iː / thər-MOP-i-lee) [14] was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I.
The Battle of Nanos (Slovene: bitka na Nanosu) took place on Nanos. Battle of Nanos; Part of World War II in Yugoslavia: Date: 18 April, 1942: Location: Nanos ...
Vuk Karadžić described the battle in the predgovor ('preface') of his Srpske narodne pjesme ('Serbian folk poems', Vienna, 1841) by citing lyrics of guslar Filip Višnjić's Boj na Čokešini. [5] [6] According to the folk song, there were over seven thousand Turks, but their number is probably exaggerated.
The Battle of Bašina Brdo (Croatian: Bitka na Bašinom Brdu) was one of the shortest battles in the Croat–Bosniak War. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The battle centered around the small mountain of Bašino Brdo . Prelude
The Battle of Una (Croatian: Bitka na Uni) was fought on 29 and 30 October 1483 between the regional Ottoman forces, mostly from the Sanjak of Bosnia, and the Kingdom of Croatia near Brod Zrinski (modern-day Novi Grad in Bosnia and Herzegovina) at the Una River crossing and was one of the first major Croatian victories against the Ottoman Empire.
The traditional Croatian historiography identified Gvozd Mountain, the location of the battle according to Gesta Hungarorum, as today's Petrova Gora. [1] [5] In the second half of the 20th century, an alternative interpretation emerged, by which the battle took place in the Kapela mountain pass of central Croatia.
The Battle of the Drina (Serbian: Bitka na Drini, Битка на Дрини) was fought between Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies in September 1914, near Loznica, Serbia, during the First Serbian campaign of World War I.
The Battle of Savra (Albanian: Beteja e Savrës; Serbian: Bitka na Saurskom polju; Turkish: Savra Muharebesi; "Battle on the Saurian field") or the Battle of the Vjosë [4] was fought on 18 September 1385 between Ottoman and much smaller Zetan forces, [5] at the Savra field near Lushnjë (in modern-day southern Albania).