List of Serbian–Ottoman conflicts

Date

20 June 1459^[1] – 13 July 1878^[2]

Location

Result

Serbia under Ottoman rule for 4 centuries, ultimately regained its independence in the 19th century

Middle Ages

Summarize

Perspective

Battle of Tripolje in 1402
Siege of Novo Brdo in 1412
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1425
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1427
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1437
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1438
Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1439–1444)
Crusade of Varna
- Battle of Nish in 1443
- Battle of Zlatitsa in 1443
- Battle of Kunovica in 1444
- Siege of Smederevo in 1453
Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1454–1455)
- Battle of Leskovac in 1454
- Battle of Kruševac in 1454
Ottoman invasion and occupation of Serbia in 1459
- Siege of Belgrade in 1456
- Siege of Smederevo in 1456
- Siege of Smederevo in 1459^[3]

Between 1457 and 1459, the medieval Serbian lands became a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.^[1]^[4]^[5] Serbian resistance against the Ottoman Turks did not end until the siege of Smederevo in 1459.^[1] In 1471, the Serbian Despotate was renewed in exile as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Hungary and continued to exist until the mid-16th century.^[1]^[4]^[5] Up until its demise in 1540, it spent its entirety fighting against the Ottoman Empire.^[1]^[4]^[5] The Serbian Despotate provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary.^[4]^[5]

Ottoman period

Ottoman expansion in Europe ended with their defeat in the Great Turkish War in 1699.^[6] The Treaty of Karlowitz forced them to surrender the region of Hungary under Ottoman control and portions of present-day Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, and Serbia to the Habsburg Empire, which pushed the Great Migrations of the Serbs to the southern regions of the Kingdom of Hungary (though as far in the north as the town of Szentendre, in which they formed the majority of the population in the 18th century, but to smaller extent also in the town of Komárom) and Habsburg-ruled Croatia.^[6]

Middle Ages