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The Kosovo field was the site of the Battle of Kosovo in June 1389, the battlefield northwest of Prishtina where an army led by Prince Lazar of Serbia fought the Ottoman army. It is for this field, and the battle, that the Kosovo region and contemporary Kosovo, and in turn the historical Kosovo Vilayet and Yugoslav Kosovo and Metohija is named ...
The battle was fought on the Kosovo field in the territory ruled by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković, in what is today Kosovo, about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) northwest of the modern city of Pristina. The army under Prince Lazar consisted mostly of his own troops, a contingent led by Branković, and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I ...
The Second Battle of Kosovo (Hungarian: második rigómezei csata, Turkish: İkinci Kosova Muharebesi) was a land battle between a Hungarian-led Crusader army and the Ottoman Empire at Kosovo field that took place from 17–20 October 1448.
- 17-20 October 1448 ( O.S.)(3 days)
- Ottoman victory
- Kosovo Field, Serbian Despotate
In the early morning of St Vitus’ Day, June 15th, 1389, the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated the Serbian ruler Prince Lazar and his Bosnian allies at Kosovo Field, a high-rolling plateau some sixty miles north of Skopje. This battle, once celebrated in Western Europe, is nowadays scarcely remembered.
On June 15, 1389, the battle of Kosovo Field (northwest of Pristina) took place. It involved, on the one hand, a united Christian army, which met the Ottomans marching against Moravian Serbia, accompanied by combat units of the Ottoman vassals.
Location: Balkans. Kosovo. Participants: Hungary. Ottoman Empire. Walachia. Key People: János Hunyadi. Murad II. Battle of Kosovo, (October 17–20, 1448), battle between forces of the Ottoman Empire and a Hungarian-Walachian coalition led by the Hungarian commander János Hunyadi at Kosovo, Serbia.
Kosovo Field. Kosovo Field (kô´sôvô), Serbian Kosovo Polje [field of the black birds], WSW of Priština, Kosovo, site of a battle in which the Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated Serbia and its Bosnian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, and other allies in 1389.
