Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and the Serbian-Ottoman Wars
Balkans in September of 1371
Date
26 September 1371
Location
Maritsa River (near Chernomen; present-day Ormenio, Greece)
Result
Ottoman victory[1]
Belligerents
Serbian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Vukašin Mrnjavčević † Uglješa Mrnjavčević † Alexander Komnenos Asen †
Lala Shahin Pasha Evrenuz
Strength
50,000–70,000[2][3][4][5][6]
800–4,000
Casualties and losses
Heavy combat losses[7] thousands drowned[8]
Unknown
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t
e
Medieval Serbian–Ottoman Wars
Stephaniana
Demotika
Sırpsındığı
Samokov
Maritsa
Dubravnica
Savra
Pločnik
Kosovo Field
Tripolje
Vitosha Pass
Smederevo
Belgrade
1st Novo Brdo
Varna
Niš
Zlatica
Kunovica
Leskovac
Kruševac
Ostrovic
Trepča
2nd Novo Brdo
Belgrade
Smederevo
Breadfield
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 Şahin Pasha and Evrenos, and Serbian forces commanded by King Vukašin Mrnjavčević and his brother Despot Jovan Uglješa.[9][10][11][12]
^Sedlar, Jean W., East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500, (University of Washington Press, 1994), 385.
^Cite error: The named reference boskovic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1993. p. 855. ISBN 978-0-85229-571-7.
^Grumeza, Ion (2010). The Roots of Balkanization: Eastern Europe C.E. 500–1500. University Press of America. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7618-5134-9.
^DeVos, Julius Emil. Fifteen hundred years of Europe. O'Donnell Press, 1924, p. 110.
^Kaemmel, Otto. Spamer's Illustrierte Weltgeschichte: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kulturgeschichte, O. Spamer, 1902, p. 740 (in German)
^Rossos, Andrew, Macedonia and the Macedonians. Hoover Institution Press Publications, 2008. p. 40.
^Hertzberg, Gustav Friedrich. Geschichte Griechenlands: Th. Vom lateinischen Kreuzzuge bis zur Vollendung der osmanischen Eroberung (1204–1740). F.A. Perthes, 1877, p. 323 (in German)
^Jirecek, Konstantin. History of the Bulgarians, p. 382
^Fine, J. V. A. The Late Mediaeval Balkan's, p. 379
^Stavrianos, L. S., The Balkans since 1453, p. 44
^Jirecek, Konstantin. Geschichte der Serben, pp. 437–438
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