Siege of Belgrade: Hunyadi Saves Europe from the Ottomans
The sultan who'd conquered Constantinople just three years earlier brought 300 cannons and 160,000 men to Belgrade. Mehmet II expected another jewel for his empire. Instead, John Hunyadi arrived with 25,000 Hungarians and a Franciscan friar named Giovanni da Capistrano who'd recruited peasants by promising them salvation. They broke the siege in three weeks. Mehmet fled wounded. Hunyadi died of plague shortly after, never knowing his victory bought Christian Europe another seventy years before Ottoman armies reached Vienna again. Sometimes the underdog wins, and the timeline of continents shifts.
July 22, 1456
570 years ago
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Ottoman Empire
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Siege of Belgrade
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John Hunyadi
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Kingdom of Hungary
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Mehmet II
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Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade)
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Ottoman Empire
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Balkans
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Mehmed II
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Kingdom of Hungary
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Siege of Belgrade (1456)
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Ottoman wars in Europe
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John Hunyadi
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Ottoman–Habsburg wars
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Treaty of Belgrade
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Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
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Schlacht bei Grocka
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