Siege of Belgrade (1440)

Siege of Belgrade (1440)
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Serbian-Ottoman Wars
Dateend of April 1440 – October 1440
Location
Result Hungarian victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Murad II
Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu
State of the Teutonic Order Ivan Talovac
Strength
35,000 3,000–5,000
Casualties and losses
17,000 (early Christian sources)[3] unknown

The siege of Belgrade was a long siege by the forces of the Ottoman Empire, lasted about six or seven months in 1440. Belgrade was an important fortified town of the Serbian Despotate and the key fortress of the Hungarian defense line after the Ottoman subjugation of Serbia in 1439. The siege ended with a dramatic final assault, the Ottomans were repelled, and after the failed assault the Turks gave up the siege and returned home.[4]

  1. ^ Jefferson 2012, p. 235–246.
  2. ^ Bánlaky, József. "Nándorfehérvár ostroma a törökök által 1440-ben" [Siege of Belgrade by the Turks in 1440]. A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme [The Military History of the Hungarian Nation] (in Hungarian). Budapest.
  3. ^ T͡Svetkova, Bistra Andreeva (1979). Pametna bitka na narodite: evropeĭskii͡a︡t i͡u︡goiztok i osmanskoto zavoevanie--krai͡a︡ na XIV i pŭrvata polovina na XV v (in Bulgarian). Kn-vo "Georgi Bakalov". p. 91. ...17 000 жертви в тия тежки сражения за овладяване
  4. ^ Jefferson 2012, pp. 236–246.