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Bohemia
Bohemia (Czech: Čechy; German: Böhmen (help·info); Polish: Czechy; French: Bohême; Latin: Bohemia) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Czech Republic. In a broader meaning, it often refers to the entire Czech...
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily (though not exclusively) in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval warfare also...
Battle of Crécy
The Battle of Crécy (occasionally called the Battle of Cressy in English) took place on 26 August 1346 near Crécy in northern France, and was one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War. The combination of new weapons and tactics...
Battle of Keresztes
The Battle of Keresztes or Battle of Mezokeresztes (Turkish: Haçova Muharebesi) took place on October 24–26, 1596, between a combined Habsburg-Transylvanian force and the Ottoman Empire, near the village of Mezőkeresztes (or in Turkish Haçova) in...
Battle of Varna
The Battle of Varna took place on November 10, 1444 near Varna in eastern Bulgaria. In this battle the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi. It was the final...
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans) was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The two primary...
Battle of White Mountain
The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 (Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech) was an early battle in the Thirty Years' War in which an army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 27,000 men of...
Battle of Kressenbrunn
The Battle of Kressenbrunn was fought in July of 1260 between the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Kingdom of Hungary for the possession of the duchies of Austria and Styria. The Bohemian forces were led by King Ottokar II Přemysl, while the Hungarians...
Long War
The Long War or Thirteen Years' War (July 29, 1593 – 1604/November 11, 1606) was one of the numerous wars between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire that took place after the Battle of Mohács.
Participants of the war were the Habsburgs,...
Balkan campaign of Suleiman
Following Ferdinand I's daring assault on Ottoman Hungary, Suleiman launched a campaign to take the Austrian capital Vienna and thereby strike a decisive blow, allowing him to consoldiate his hold on Hungary.
Suleiman's march to Vienna was also an...
Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528
Following the Battle of Mohacs, the Ottomans were forced to withdraw as events elsewhere in their now massive Empire required the Sultan's attention. Seizing upon their absence was Ferdinand I who attempted to enforce his claim as King of Hungary....
Little War in Hungary
The Little War is a name given to a series of conflicts between the Habsburgs and their allies and the Ottoman Empire between 1529 after Vienna until the end of the Siege of Eger. The war saw both sides suffering heavy casualties with the result...
Battle of Lechfeld
The Battle of Lechfeld (10 August 955), often seen as the defining event for holding off the incursions of the Hungarians into Western Europe, was a decisive victory by Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, over the Hungarian leaders, the harka ...
Battle of Nicopolis
The Battle of Nicopolis (Bulgarian: Битка при Никопол, Bitka pri Nikopol; Turkish: Niğbolu Savaşı, Hungarian: Nikápolyi Csata, Romanian: Bătălia de la Nicopole) took place on September 25, 1396, between the Ottoman Empire versus an allied force from...
Battle of Kosovo
The Battle of Kosovo was a battle fought in 1389 on St Vitus' Day, June 15, between Serbian forces and the Ottoman Empire, in the Kosovo Field, about 5 kilometers northwest of modern-day Pristina.
Reliable historical accounts of the battle are...
