Ottoman Empire
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From studying the Ottoman response to Hunyadi's crusades in 1440s, it seems that they avoided the Hussite-style wagenburg tactics that Hunyadi like to employ like a plague. A wise...
Today 10 November is the anniversary of the battle of Varna fought in 1444. In a fierce battle, the Ottomans led by Sultan Murad II defeated the crusader army led by John Hunyadi...
One of those small mysteries working with mss: a late 17th/early 18th century note in Turkish, in a Vienna Humāyūnnāme (ÖNB, ms A.F. 102), about the ms’s foliation. The hand‘s too...