Battle of Nicopolis

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in Turkish Wars of European Expansion. Result: Roman Catholic Europe failed to drive back the Turks, leaving them in control of the Balkans for the next five hundred years.

When the Turks crushed the Serbs at Kosovo (June 15, 1389), they made themselves the dominant power in the Balkans. Western Christians, led by the new king of Hungary, Sigismund of Luxembourg, made plans to rescue the Christians there and to relieve the Muslim pressure on Constantinople by calling on his brother, Holy Roman emperor Wenceslas of...

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