List of Serbian–Ottoman conflicts

Serbian–Ottoman wars

Date	October 1352 – 30 May 1913 (560 years and 7 months)
Location	Balkans
Result	Serbia under Ottoman rule for centuries, ultimately regained independence in the 19th century

Belligerents

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Commanders and leaders

Serbian Despot

This is a list of Serbian–Ottoman wars.

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Middle Ages

v t e Medieval Serbian–Ottoman Wars
Stephaniana Demotika Sırpsındığı Samokov Maritsa Dubravnica Savra Pločnik Kosovo Field Tripolje Vitosha Pass Smederevo Belgrade 1st Novo Brdo Varna Niš Zlatica Kunovica Leskovac Kruševac Ostrovic Trepča 2nd Novo Brdo Belgrade Smederevo Breadfield

Battle of Tripolje in 1402
Siege of Novo Brdo in 1412
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1425
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1427
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1437
Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1438
Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1439–1444)
Crusade of Varna
- Battle of Nish in 1443
- Battle of Zlatitsa in 1443
- Battle of Kunovica in 1444
- Siege of Smederevo in 1453
Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1454–1455)
- Battle of Leskovac in 1454
- Battle of Kruševac in 1454
Ottoman invasion and occupation of Serbia in 1459
- Siege of Belgrade in 1456
- Siege of Smederevo in 1456
- Siege of Smederevo in 1459

Between 1457 and 1459, the medieval Serbian lands became a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. In 1471, the Serbian Despotate was renewed in exile as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Hungary. Up until its demise in 1540, it spent its entirety fighting against the Ottoman Turks. The Serbian Despotate provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary.

Ottoman expansion in Europe ended with their defeat in the Great Turkish War in 1699. The Treaty of Karlowitz forced them to surrender the region of Hungary under Ottoman control and portions of present-day Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, and Serbia to the Habsburg Empire, which pushed the Great Migrations of the Serbs to the southern regions of the Kingdom of Hungary (though as far in the north as the town of Szentendre, in which they formed the majority of the population in the 18th century, but to smaller extent also in the town of Komárom) and Habsburg-ruled Croatia.

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