Battle of Rovine

Battle of Rovine
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Ottoman-Wallachian wars
Date17 May 1395
Location
Rovine, Wallachia
Result Wallachian victory[1][2][3][4]
Belligerents
Wallachia Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Mircea the Elder Sultan Bayezid I
Stefan Lazarević
Marko Mrnjavčević 
Konstantin Dejanović 
Konstantin Balšić
Andrijaš Mrnjavčević 
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy

The Battle of Rovine took place on 17 May 1395.[5] The Wallachian army led by Voivod Mircea the Elder opposed the Ottoman invasion personally led by Sultan Bayezid I the Thunderbolt. The Turkish force heavily outnumbered the Wallachian troops. The legend says that on the eve of the battle, dressed as a peace emissary, Mircea cel Bătrân talked to Bayezid asking him to leave Wallachia and promised him safe passage back. The Sultan proudly insisted on fighting later suffering a humiliating loss.

  1. ^ Fine 1994, p. 424
  2. ^ Norman Angell (2004). Peace Theories and the Balkan War. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4191-4050-1.
  3. ^ Jim Bradbury (2004). The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-22126-9.
  4. ^ Norman L. Forter; Demeter B. Rostovsky (1971). The Roumanian Handbook. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-405-02747-5.
  5. ^ Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State, p. 551. Published by Rutgers University Press, 1969. ISBN 0-8135-1198-4.