1414 – August 1415
Doboj and Bosnia, 1414–1415
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, Grand Duke of Bosnia and lord of the lands around Jajce, loses Split and his Dalmatian islands after King Ostoja returns to the Bosnian throne with Hungarian backing. In 1414 he turns to Mehmed for help.
The fortress of Jajce above the bridge on the PlivaWikimedia Commons, Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Jajce – Pliva bridge and fortress.jpg)
In June 1415 a Hungarian army under János Garai, János Maróti and Pál Csupor crosses the Sava and camps below the fortress of Doboj in the valley of the Bosna, with supplies brought up the river by boat. An Ottoman army under İshak Bey comes up from the south by Zenica and joins Hrvoje and other Bosnian lords. In the battle, fought on 6 August 1415, or about 10 August by another account, near Makljenovac south of Doboj, the Hungarian army is routed and its three commanders are taken prisoner.
A bascinet helmet and a sword in the museum of the fortress of DobojWikimedia Commons, Castrum 1415, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bascinet helmet and sword.jpg)
Ottoman raiders then cross the Sava and plunder the Hungarian border lands, and raids into Bosnia follow year after year. Hrvoje dies in 1416 and is buried at Jajce. In the following years Ottoman raiders reach Croatia and Styria.
Sources
- Ferdo Šišić, Vojvoda Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić i njegovo doba (1902).
- John V. A. Fine, The Late Medieval Balkans (1994).
- Pál Engel, The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526 (2001).
- Halil İnalcık, “Meḥemmed I”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., vol. 6 (1991), 973–978.
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