Battle of Obreška

Battle of Obreška
	Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe; Ottoman–Croatian Wars
	Obreška Obreška (Croatia)
Date	10 September 1565
Location	Ivanić-Grad, Kingdom of Croatia, Habsburg monarchy
Result	Croatian victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Habsburg Monarchy Kingdom of Croatia;
Commanders and leaders
Mustafa Pasha Sokolović	Croatian ban Peter Erdődy
Strength
12,000	1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry (armed serfs)
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Light

The Battle of Obreška (

Prelude

Death of Hungarian and Croatian king

Jan Zapolya (pretender for the crown of Hungary and Ottoman vassal) and Ferdinand's son and new king, Maximilian.^[1]

In the summer of 1565, as a prelude to a full scale

Petar Erdody in the battle of Obreška.^[1]

Obreška is a village near Ivanić-Grad, where on 10 September 1565 an Ottoman raiding party from Bosnia was met by Croatian ban's troops; it was just another Ottoman raid into the Kingdom of Croatia.^[2]

After the

serfs.^[2]

For this victory, Petar Erdody was awarded the title of a

count by King Maximilian of Hungary and Croatia.^[2]

Vojna enciklopedija (1970–76), 10 volumes, Vojno izdavački zavod Beograd, book 6, p. 226, article Obreška (in Serbo-Croatian)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hrvatska povijest. Drugi dio (Šišić)/Poglavlje II. – Wikizvor". hr.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gažević, Nikola (1974). Vojna enciklopedija (tom 6). Beograd: Vojnoizdavački zavod. p. 755.

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