Military campaign by European leaders to stop expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central Europe
Crusade of Varna
Part of Ottoman–Hungarian wars
King Władysław III of Poland in the Battle of Varna, by Jan Matejko
Date
October 1443 – November 1444
Location
Southern Europe (Balkans)
Result
Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Serbian Despotate
Crown of Bohemia
Principality of Wallachia
Bulgarian rebels
Kingdom of Bosnia
Papal States
Teutonic Knights
Naval assistance:
Duchy of Burgundy
Republic of Venice
Republic of Ragusa
Byzantine Empire[1]
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Władysław III † John Hunyadi
Đurađ Branković
Mircea II Fruzhin Julian Cesarini †
Murad II
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Crusade of Varna
Nish
Zlatitsa
Kunovica
Varna
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Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1366–67)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1375–77)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1389–96)
(Nicopolis)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1415–19)
War of the South Danube (1420–32)
(Golubac)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1437–42)
(Belgrade
Hermannstadt)
Crusade of Varna (1443–44)
(Nish
Zlatitsa
Kunovica
Várna)
Kosovo (1448)
Kruševac (1454)
Belgrade (1456)
Užice (1458)
Smederevo (1459)
Jajce (1464)
Zvornik (1464)
Vaslui (1475)
Serbia Expedition (1477)
Breadfield (1479)
Otranto (1480–81)
Krbava Field (1493)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1521–26)
Belgrade (1521)
Šabac (1521)
Mohács (1526)
Ottoman–Habsburg wars
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Polish–Ottoman Wars
1375–1377
1389–1396
1415–1419
1437-1442
1443–1444
1485–1503
1502–1510
1524
1526
1561
1593–1606
1595
1607
1612
1615–1616
1620–1621
1633–1634
1666–1671
1672–1676 (Lipka rebellion)
1683–1699
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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
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Crusades
Ideology and institutions
Crusading movement
In the Holy Land (1095–1291)
First
1101
Norwegian
Venetian
1129
Second
Third
1197
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Barons'
Seventh
1267
Catalan
Eighth
Lord Edward's
Fall of Outremer
Later Crusades (1291–1717)
Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399
Aragonese
Smyrniote
Alexandrian
Savoyard
Barbary
1390
1398
1399
Nicopolis
Varna
Holy Leagues
1332
1495
1511
1526
1535
1538
1571
1594
1684
1717
Northern (1147–1410)
Kalmar
Wendish
Swedish
1150
1249
1293
Livonian
Prussian
Lithuanian
Russian
Tatar
Against Christians (1209–1485)
Albigensian
Drenther
Stedinger
Bosnian
Bohemian
Despenser's
Hussite
Popular (1096–1320)
People's (1096)
Children's
Shepherds' (1251)
Crusade of the Poor
Shepherds' (1320)
Reconquista (722–1492)
The Crusade of Varna was an unsuccessful military campaign mounted by several European leaders to check the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central Europe, specifically the Balkans between 1443 and 1444. It was called by Pope Eugene IV on 1 January 1443 and led by King Władysław III of Poland, John Hunyadi, Voivode of Transylvania, and Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
The Crusade of Varna culminated in a decisive Ottoman victory over the crusader alliance at the Battle of Varna on 10 November 1444, during which Władysław and the expedition's papal legate Julian Cesarini were killed.
^Imber, Colin (2006). The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45. Ashgate. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7546-0144-9.
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