Battle of Savra

Battle of Savra
Beteja e Savrës
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe
Date18 September 1385
Location
Savran field, near Lushnjë
Result Ottoman-Thopia Albanian victory[1]
Belligerents
Principality of Albania
Ottoman Empire		 Principality of Zeta
Commanders and leaders
Karl Thopia
Hayreddin Pasha		 Balsha II †
Ivaniš Mrnjavčević †
Strength
40,000[2][3] Unknown

The Battle of Savra (Albanian: Beteja e Savrës; Serbian: Bitka na Saurskom polju; Turkish: Savra Muharebesi; "Battle on the Saurian field") or the Battle of the Vjosë[4] was fought on 18 September 1385 between Ottoman and much smaller Zetan forces,[5] at the Savra field near Lushnjë (in modern-day southern Albania). The Ottomans were invited by Karl Thopia to support him in his feud against Balsha II.[6]

  1. ^ Sedlar, Jean W., East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, (University of Washington Press, 1994), 385.
  2. ^ TBR. TBR Company. 2000. p. 41.
  3. ^ E. Jacques, Edwin (2009). The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present - Volume 1. McFarland & Company. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7864-4238-6. ...Topia called on the Turks for assistance. Amurat I (or Murad I) gladly sent an army of 40,000 men from Macedonia...
  4. ^ Kiel 1990, p. 17.
  5. ^ Група аутора. Историја српксог народа II. Српска књижевна задруга. p. 40.
  6. ^ Somel, Selcuk Aksin (2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-8108-7579-1. ...the Ottomans supported Lord Karl Thopia against Balsha II, defeating the latter...