VARNA, BATTLE OF


Meaning of VARNA, BATTLE OF in English

(November 10, 1444) Turkish victory over the Hungarians that marked the end of the European effort to protect Constantinople.

The Hungarians under Janos Hunyadi broke a truce and marched to Varna (in present-day Bulgaria), where they fought the Turks under Sultan Murad II and were defeated; the Hungarian king Ulászló I (also ruler of Poland) was killed in the battle. The victory enabled the Ottoman Empire to gain control of the Greek Peloponnese, conquer Constantinople (1453), and reabsorb Serbia (by 1459).

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