Belgrade

by Popović, Alexandre

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Located on a promontory at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers, Belgrade , the “White City,” was held successively by Bulgarians, Serbs, and Hungarians. It was a crucial strongpoint and the key to the Pannonian plain and it became the “bulwark of Christendom” after the Ottomans occupied the southern Balkans since the fourteenth century. However, the Ottomans advanced steadily. They captured Smederevo in 843/1439 and besieged Belgrade twice, under Sultan Murad II (Sulṭān Murād II, r. 82…

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Located on a promontory at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers, Belgrade , the “White City,” was held successively by Bulgarians, Serbs, and Hungarians. It was a crucial strongpoint and the key to the Pannonian plain and it became the “bulwark of Christendom” after the Ottomans occupied the southern Balkans since the fourteenth century. However, the Ottomans advanced steadily. They captured Smederevo in 843/1439 and besieged Belgrade twice, under Sultan Murad II (Sulṭān Murād II, r. 824–48 and 850–5/1421–44 and 1446–51) in 844/

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1402

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eng Islam

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Popović, Alexandre

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