STRUGGLE OF SULTAN MURAT II. WITH THE CRUSADERS - BATTLES OF VARNA AND KOSOVO
SULTAN II. MURAD’IN HAÇLILARLA MÜCADELESİ – VARNA VE KOSOVA SAVAŞLARI

Author : Muhittin KAPANŞAHİN
Number of pages : 14-28

Abstract

Murad II succeeded Sultan Mehmed I (Çelebi Sultan Mehmed) as the sixth Ottoman Sultan had to fight against the Crusaders consisted of many European countries and led by the Byzantines during his 30 years of reign. Particularly, the Pope and the Crusader states led by the Hungarians, attempted many times to remove Ottomans from Europe completely. King Vladislas and Jun Hudyad who came to power after the death of the German emperor and king Albert of Hungary in Europe, won a number of successes against the Ottomans. The wars they won led them to move for bigger one and also led other states of Europe to support them. Therefore, they began to think that they can realize their dream of removing Turks out of Europe. For this purpose, they tried to prepare a large crusader army with the broad participation. The Crusaders whose main goals were to remove the Turks out of Europe and then to move into Anatolia, organized two big battles. These are: Varna and Kosovo Battles. In this article,

Keywords

Crusaders, Murad II, Varna, Kosovo

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