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The battle for Nish was not one, but five different battles. The first engagement was a battle against a small garrison in Nish and the Crusaders captured, pillaged, and burned the town. [12] This was followed by three battles against three different Ottoman armies advancing on Nish.
The Romans occupied the town in the period of the "Dardanian War" (75-73 BC), and set up a legionary camp. [17] The city (called refugia and vici in pre-Roman relation), because of its strategic position (Thracians were based to the south [17]) developed as an important garrison and market town of the province of Moesia Superior. [18]
The battle for the liberation of Niš started on 29 December 1877, and the Serbian Army entered Niš on 11 January 1878, and it became a part of Serbia. The Albanian quarter was burned and some of the town's Muslim population, which the majority were Albanians, were forced to flee to the Ottoman vilayet of Kosovo , resettling in Pristina ...
Several battles have been fought in and around Niš, thus Battle of Niš (Serbian: Битка код Ниша) may refer to: Battle of Naissus (268 or 269), fought between the Roman Empire and the Goths; Battle of Niš (1443), fought between a Christian alliance (Hungary, Poland and Serbia) against the Ottoman Empire
The British Bible scholar, Hugh J. Schonfield theorized that the location of Armageddon, mentioned only in the New Testament, at (Revelation 16:16), is a Greek garbling of a supposed late Aramaic name for Ramoth-Gilead; that this location, having anciently belonged to the Hebrew tribe of Gad, was, in New Testament times, part of the Greek ...
Niš operation (Serbian: Нишка операција, Bulgarian: Нишка операция) was an offensive operation of the Bulgarian army, supported by Yugoslav Partisans against German Army Group E to secure the left flank of the Third Ukrainian Front of the Red Army.
Nov. 19—President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. Lithograph based on watercolor painting by Joseph Boggs Beale for Harper's Weekly magazine in 1900. (Public ...
Depiction of the Battle of Eben-Ezer from the Dura-Europos synagogue (pre-244 AD) Gouda, Netherlands Inscription: Eben-Ezer on the Matthaus Frank House , today #6 Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem Eben-Ezer ( Hebrew : אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר , romanized : ’éḇen hā‘ēzer , lit.