Siege of Smederevo (1459)
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Siege of Smederevo | |||||||
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Lithography of the castle of Smederevo by Adolph Friedrich Kunike | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ottoman Empire |
Serbian Despotate Kingdom of Hungary | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mehmed II Mahmud Pasha |
Stephen Tomašević | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Small |
Heavy 200,000 prisoners[1][page needed] |
The siege of Smederevo was Mehmed II's assault on the Smederevo Fortress during his fourth Serbian campaign.
Background
At the beginning of 1458, the Serbian question re-emerged and the Serbs were divided over the solution. A large group of overlords sided with the
]When the Ottoman government heard about these events, it decided to definitively settle the Serbian issue. In 1458, while the Sultan was on his way to the
After taking some important castles around Smederevo, the capital of the Serbs, Mahmud Pasha besieged Smederevo and took the outer walls, but he could not take the main castle and lifted the siege.[3]
Siege
However, for the Turks, Smederevo had to fall in order for Serbia to become a fully
Aftermath
The fall of Smederevo led to the surrender of all the small forts in northern Serbia. By the end of 1459, all of Serbia was under Mehmed's control, with some 200,000 Serbian captives, thus beginning more than 400 years of Ottoman rule.[1][page needed]
Smederevo became a sanjak created a bad situation for the neighboring governments and especially for the Hungarians. After that, the Smederevo fortress became a base for raids on Hungary until the capture of Belgrade.[4][page needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781590202487.
- ISBN 9782702817735.
- ^ ISBN 9789751600127.
- ^ ISBN 9789751610812.