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The Battle of Valea Albă, also known as the Battle of Războieni or the Battle of Akdere, was an important event in the medieval history of Moldavia.
- 26 July 1476
- Ottoman victory
- Războieni, present-day Romania
The Battle of Valea Albă, also known as the Battle of Războieni or the Battle of Akdere, was an important event in the medieval history of Moldavia.
La batalla de Valea Albă, también conocida como batalla de Războieni, fue un enfrentamiento militar ocurrido el 26 de julio de 1476 entre un ejército otomano, dirigido por el sultán Mehmed II, y otro moldavo, dirigido por el príncipe Esteban III, en el contexto de las guerras moldavo-otomanas.
- Background
- The Battle
- Aftermath
- In Fiction
In 1475 the Ottoman's attempt to bring Moldavia under their control, at winter by using an army of Rumelian local levies, ended disastrously with a defeat in the Battle of Vaslui. During the proper military campaign season, the Ottomans assembled a large army under the command of the Sultan, Mehmed II and entered Moldavia in June 1476. Meanwhile gr...
The battle began with the Moldavians luring the main Ottoman forces into a forest that was set on fire, causing some casualties to the attacking Ottoman army in the forest. According to another battle description, the defending Moldavian forces repelled several attacks with steady fire from hand-guns. The attacking Ottoman Janissarieswere forced to...
Ştefan cel Mare retreated into the north-western part of Moldavia or even into the Polish Kingdom and began forming another army.The Ottomans were unable to conquer any of the major Moldavian strongholds (Suceava, Neamţ, Hotin)and were constantly harassed by small scale Moldavians attacks. Soon they were also confronted with starvation, a situation...
In the Romanian theatrical play Apus de Soare by Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea(set in the final year of Ştefan's reign), one can find a description of the battle in the form of a dialog between the daughters and widows of the boyars who had fallen in the battle, in which they describe how their respective fathers and husbands had to drag Ştefan out ...
- July 26, 1476
- indecisive Ottoman victory
- Războieni, present-day Romania
- 5 min
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The Battle of Valea Albă or Battle of Războieni or Battle of Akdere was an important event in the medieval history of Moldavia. It took place at Războieni, also known as Valea Albă, on July 26, 1476, between the Moldavian army of Ştefan cel Mare and an invading Ottoman army which was commanded personally by the Sultan Mehmed II.
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