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Battle of Savra
| Battle of Savra | |||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Principality of Albania .svg){kind=small} Ottoman Sultanate |
 Principality of Zeta | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Karl Thopia Hayreddin Pasha |
Balsha II † Ivaniš Mrnjavčević † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 40,000[2] | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Savra (Albanian: Beteja e Savrës; Serbian: Bitka na Saurskom polju; Turkish: Savra Muharebesi; "Battle on the Saurian field") or the Battle of the Vjosë[3] was fought on 18 September 1385 between Ottoman and much smaller Zetan forces,[4] at the Savra field near Lushnjë (in modern-day southern Albania). The Ottomans were invited by Karl Thopia to support him in his feud against Balsha II.[5]
- ^ Sedlar, Jean W., East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, (University of Washington Press, 1994), 385.
- ^ TBR. TBR Company. 2000. p. 41.
- ^ Kiel 1990, p. 17.
- ^ Група аутора. Историја српксог народа II. Српска књижевна задруга. p. 40.
- ^ Somel, Selcuk Aksin (2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-8108-7579-1.
...the Ottomans supported Lord Karl Thopia against Balsha II, defeating the latter...
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