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Battle of Vaslui

Battle of Vaslui
Part of the Moldavian-Ottoman Wars
and the Ottoman-Hungarian Wars
DateJanuary 10, 1475 [2] [1]
Location
Near Vaslui, present-day Romania
Result Decisive Moldavian victory
Ottoman Defeat [2]
Belligerents
Moldavia
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders
Stephen III of Moldavia
Mihály Fants [3]

Hadım Suleiman Pasha [2]

Strength
40,000 Moldavians
5,000 Székelys
2,000 Polish
1,800 Hungarians (did not engage)
20 cannons [EN] [BG] [FR]
Same except 20,000 Moldavians infantry and cavalry [HU]
~120,000 Ottomans [PL] [EN]
17,000 Wallachians (did not engage)
20,000 Bulgarians [EN]
Same except 60-80000 Ottomans [BG] [ES] [IT] [MK]
40,000 Ottomans,20,000 to 40,000 mercenaries Tatars [FR]
Casualties and losses
aprox. 4,500 [PL] [EN]
Unknown [BG] [ES] [FR] [HU] [MK]
more than 8,000 men [IT]
aprox. 50,000
40 000 [BG] [ES] [IT]
Unknown [FR]
Thousands of people [HU]

Battle of Valea Albă (1476)

Battle of Valea Albă/Războieni/Akdere
Part of the Moldavian-Ottoman Wars
DateJuly 26, 1476 [2]
Location
Războieni, present-day Romania
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents

Ottoman Empire

Moldavia
Commanders and leaders

Mehmed II

Stephen III of Moldavia
Strength
I don't know the Ottoman troops but
12,000 Wallachians troops [1]
Over 100,000 [ES]
20,000 [FR]
100,000 [PL]
approximately 200,00 [ROs]
~20,000 [ESs] & [PL] & [ROs]
Casualties and losses
30,000 killed [RO] Most died or injured [ES]
High [PL]
200 killed 800 captured [RO]

Kilia (1484)

Mengli Giray joined (Salt) [4]


Akkerman (1484)

Mengli Giray Joined (Salt) [4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Kármán & KunÄevic 2013, p. 266.
  2. ^ a b c d Ãgoston & Masters 2009, p. 390.
  3. ^ Ferencz Kállay (1829). Historiai értekezés a' nemes székely nemzet' eredetérÅ‘l: hadi és polgári intézeteirÅ‘l a régi idÅ‘kben [Historical discourse about the origin of the 'magnanimous szekler nation' : military and civil institutes in the past times.] (in Hungarian). Nagyenyed, Hungary: Fiedler Gottfried. p. 247. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
  4. ^ a b Kármán & KunÄevic 2013, p. 279.

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