Additional turmoil erupts when the Ottoman Turks…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

Additional turmoil erupts when the Ottoman Turks expand their empire into the Balkans.

They cross the Bosporus Straits in 1352, subdue Bulgaria in 1388, and defeat the Serbs at Kosovo Polje in 1389.

Sigismund leads a crusade against them in 1396, but the Ottomans rout his forces at Nicopolis, and he barely escapes with his life.

Tamerlane's invasion of Anatolia in 1402-03 slows the Turks' progress for several decades, but in 1437 Sultan Murad prepares to invade Hungary.

Sigismund dies the same year, and Hungary's next two kings, Albrecht V of Austria (1437-39) and Wladyslaw III of Poland (1439-44), who is known in Hungary as Ulaszlo I, both die during campaigns against the Turks.

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Budapest Budapest Hungary View →

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Albert II of Germany View → Timur View → Wladyslaw III View →

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Transylvania, region of View → Jews View → Germans View → Hungarian people View → Slavs, West View → Slavonia region View → Serbs (South Slavs) View → Croats (South Slavs) View → Croatia, Kingdom of View → Slovaks (West Slavs) View → Hungary, Kingdom of View → Cuman people, or Western Kipchaks, also called Polovtsy, Polovtsians) View → Croatia, Kingdom of View → Italians (Latins) View → Saxons, Transylvanian View → Székelys View → Poland of the later Piasts, Kingdom of View → Ottoman Empire View → Timurid Empire View → Ottoman Empire View → Union of Three Nations View → Turkish people View → Serbia, Ottoman View →

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Bulgarian–Ottoman wars View → Timur (Tamerlane), Conquests of View → Nicopolis, Battle of View →

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Conflict View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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