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Battle of Rovine
1395
17 May 1395
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type of battle

war or event

Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans

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location

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Facing rebellion in Romania, Ottoman Sultan Bayazid sent Yildirim Khan across the Arges and west of Arad at Rovine Prince Mircea of Wallachia was defeated (though the reluctant Ottoman ally Marko Kraljevic of Serbia was killed). Bayazid then executed John Sisman of Trnovo to put Vlad on the Wallachian throne. In 1396 the Sultan defeated a Christian Crusade at Nicopolis.


   
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