The following is a chronological list of notable military commanders of any rank whose deaths occurred during a conflict with the Ottoman Empire. Applicable death causes include but are not limited to: Death from wounds, killed in action, capital punishment, death during captivity, illness and subsequent death caused by poor conditions during a siege or battle involving Ottoman forces.
Name | Country of origin | Date | Place | Cause of death | Ref |
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Michael Asen IV | Bulgaria | 1355 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Killed in action | [1] |
Vukašin Mrnjavčević | Serbia | 27 September 1371 | Maritsa, Bulgaria | Killed in action | [2] |
Uglješa Mrnjavčević | Serbia | 27 September 1371 | Maritsa, Bulgaria | Killed in action | [3] |
Alexander Komnenos | Serbia (Ethnically Bulgarian-Greek) | 27 September 1371 | Maritsa, Bulgaria | Killed in action | [3] |
Yanuka | Bulgaria | 1385 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Capital punishment | [4] |
Balša II | Serbia | 18 September 1385 | Saurian field, Albania | Killed in action | [5] |
Ivaniš Mrnjavčević | Serbia | 18 September 1385 | Saurian field, Albania | Killed in action | [5] |
Lazar Hrebeljanović | Serbia | 15 June 1389 | Kosovo Field, District of Branković | Killed in action | [6] |
Miloš Obilić | Serbia | 15 June 1389 | Kosovo Field, District of Branković | Dismemberment | [7] |
Ivan Shishman | Bulgaria | 3 June 1395 | Nikopol, Bulgaria | Capital punishment | [8] |
Jean de Carrouges | France | 25 September 1396 | Niğbolu, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [9] |
Jean de Vienne | France | 25 September 1396 | Niğbolu, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [9] |
Ivan Stratsimir | Bulgaria | 1397 | Bursa, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [10] |
Philip I | France | 16 June 1397 | Bursa, Ottoman Empire | Died in captivity | [11] |
Vuk Branković | Serbia | 6 October 1397 | Ottoman Empire | Died in captivity | [12] |
Enguerrand VII | France | 18 November 1397 | Bursa, Ottoman Empire | Died in captivity from the bubonic plague | [13] |
Vuk Lazarević | Serbia | 6 July 1410 | Filibe, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [14] |
Depë Zenebishi | Venice (Ethnically Albanian) | 1436 | Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [15] |
György Lépes | Hungary | 18 March 1442 | Marosszentimre, Hungary | Decapitation | [16] |
Simon Kemény | Hungary | 25 March 1442 | Nagyszeben, Hungary | Killed in action | [17] |
Władysław III | Poland | 10 November 1444 | Varna, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [18] |
Julian Cesarini | Papal States | 10 November 1444 | Varna, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [19] |
Franko Talovac | Croatia | October 1448 | Kosovo Field, Serbian Despotate | Killed in action | [20] |
Antonio Rizzo | Venice | 8 December 1452 | Dimetoka, Ottoman Empire | Impalement | [21] |
Gabriele Orsini | Venice | 1453 | Constantinople, Byzantine Empire | Killed in action | [22] |
Giacomo Cocco | Venice | 28 April 1453 | Constantinople, Byzantine Empire | Killed in action | [23] |
Constantine XI | Byzantine Empire | 29 May 1453 | Constantinople, Byzantine Empire | Killed in action | [24] |
Theophilos Palaiologos | Byzantine Empire | 29 May 1453 | Constantinople, Byzantine Empire | Killed in action | [25] |
Girolamo Minotto | Venice | 30 May 1453 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [21] |
Giovanni Giustiniani | Genoa | 1 June 1453 | Chios, Genoa | Died of wounds | [26] |
Loukas Notaras | Byzantine Empire | 3 June 1453 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [27] |
Demetrios Palaiologos | Byzantine Empire | 3 June 1453 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [28] |
Andronikos Palaiologos | Byzantine Empire | 3 June 1453 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [28] |
Nikola Skobaljić | Serbia | 16 November 1454 | Banja, Serbia | Impalement | [29] |
Michael Szilágyi | Hungary | 1460 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Death by sawing | [30] |
Niccolò Gattilusio | Genoa | 1462 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [31] |
Stephen II | Bosnia | 25 May 1463 | Carevo Polje, Bosnia | Decapitation | [32] |
David Komnenos | Trebizond | 1 November 1463 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [33] |
Bertoldo d'Este | Venice | 4 November 1463 | Chalcis, Venice | Died of wounds | [34] |
Moisi Golemi | Albania | 1464 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Flayed to death | [35] |
Orsato Giustiniani | Venice | 1464 | Madone, Venice | Died of wounds | [36] |
Vladan Jurica | Albania | April 1465 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Flayed to death | [37] |
Manuel Bochalis | 1468 | Kalamata, Venice | Impalement | [38] | |
Paolo Erizzo | Venice | 12 July 1470 | Chalcis, Venice | Killed in action | [39] |
Vlad III | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | January 1477 | Snagov, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [40] |
John de Bajna | Hungary | 29 August 1493 | Brinje, Croatia | Killed in action | [41] |
Péter II | Hungary (Ethnically Croatian) | 9 September 1493 | Krbava, Croatia | Killed in action | [42] |
Emerik Derenčin | Hungary | 9 September 1493 | Krbava, Croatia | Killed in action | [42] |
Ivan Cetinski | Croatia | 9 September 1493 | Krbava, Croatia | Killed in action | [42] |
Abd al-Baqi Yazdi | Safavid Empire | 23 August 1514 | Chaldiran, Safavid Empire | Killed in action | [43] |
Husayn Shamlu | Safavid Empire (Ethnically Turkoman) | 23 August 1514 | Chaldiran, Safavid Empire | Killed in action | [44] |
Mohammad Ustajlu | Safavid Empire (Ethnically Turkoman) | 23 August 1514 | Chaldiran, Safavid Empire | Killed in action | [44] |
Sayyed Shirazi | Safavid Empire | 23 August 1514 | Chaldiran, Safavid Empire | Killed in action | [45] |
Ala Bozkurt | Dulkadir | 13 June 1515 | Turnadağ, Dulkadir | Killed in action | [46] |
Qansuh II al-Ghawri | Mamluk Sultanate | 24 August 1516 | Dabiq, Mamluk Sultanate | Decapitation | [47] |
Tuman Bay II | Mamluk Sultanate | 15 April 1517 | Bab Zuweila, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [48] |
Petar Berislavić | Croatia | 20 May 1520 | Plješivica, Croatia | Killed in action | [49] |
Louis II | Hungary | 29 August 1526 | Mohács, Hungary | Killed in action | [50] |
George Zápolya | Hungary | 29 August 1526 | Mohács, Hungary | Killed in action | [51] |
Pál Tomori | Hungary | 29 August 1526 | Mohács, Hungary | Killed in action | [52] |
Rodrigo de Portuondo | Spain | 28 October 1529 | Formentera, Spain | Killed in action | [53] |
Niklas von Salm | Holy Roman Empire | 4 May 1530 | Salmhof, Holy Roman Empire | Died of wounds | [54] |
Petar Kružić | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Croatian) | 12 March 1537 | Klis, Holy Roman Empire | Killed in action | [55] |
Ludovico Lodron | Venice | October 1537 | Ösek, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [56] |
Pavle Bakić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 9 October 1537 | Diakovár, Hungary | Killed in action | [57] |
Ludovico Lodron | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Italian) | 9 October 1537 | Diakovár, Hungary | Decapitation | [57] |
Francisco de Sarmiento | Spain | 7 August 1539 | Castelnuovo, Spain | Killed in action | [58] |
György Varkocs | Hungary | 2 September 1543 | Székesfehérvár, Hungary | Killed in action | [59] |
Bálint Török | Hungary | 1551 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Died in captivity | [60] |
István Losonci | Hungary | 27 July 1552 | Temesvár, Hungary | Decapitation | [61] |
Gergely Bornemissza | Hungary | 1555 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Unknown | [62] |
Martín de Alcaudete | Spain | August 1558 | Mostaganem, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [63] |
Matija Bakić | Croatia | 23 June 1565 | Krupa, Holy Roman Empire | Killed in action | [64] |
Banul Mărăcine | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | August 1565 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [65] |
Nikola IV | Croatia | 7 September 1566 | Szigetvár, Hungary | Died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest by a musket | [66] |
Ivan Lenković | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Croatian) | 22 June 1569 | Klis, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [67] |
Astorre Baglioni | Venice | 4 August 1571 | Gazimağusa, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [68] |
Marcantonio Bragadin | Venice | 17 August 1571 | Gazimağusa, Ottoman Empire | Flayed to death | [21] |
Agostino Barbarigo | Venice | 9 October 1571 | Gulf of Patras, Ionian Sea | Killed by an arrow to the eye | [69] |
John III | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 14 June 1574 | Roșcani, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [70] |
Herbard VIII | Holy Roman Empire | September 1575 | Budački, Military Frontier | Killed in action | [71] |
Sebastian I | Portugal | 4 August 1578 | Ksar el-Kebir, Saadi Sultanate | Killed in action | [72] |
Mohammed II | Saadi Sultanate | 4 August 1578 | Ksar el-Kebir, Saadi Sultanate | Killed in action | [72] |
Thomas Stukley | England | 4 August 1578 | Ksar el-Kebir, Saadi Sultanate | Killed by a cannonball | [73] |
Petru Cercel | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | March 1590 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [74] |
Karl von Mansfeld | Holy Roman Empire | 24 August 1595 | Komárom, Holy Roman Empire | Died of wounds | [75] |
Simon I | Georgia | 1611 | Yedikule Fortress, Ottoman Empire | Died in captivity | [76] |
Teodor | Hungary (Ethnically Serbian) | 1594 | Ottoman Empire | Death by burning | [77] |
Dionysios Skylosophos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | September 1611 | Yanya, Ottoman Empire | Flayed to death | [78] |
Costea Bucioc | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 20 July 1620 | Bessarabia, Ottoman Empire | Impalement | [79] |
Stanisław Żółkiewski | Poland | 7 October 1620 | Cecora, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [80] |
Walenty Kalinowski | Poland | 7 October 1620 | Cecora, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [80] |
Mikołaj Zenowicz | Poland | 7 September 1621 | Khotyn, Poland | Killed in action | [81] |
Jan Chodkiewicz | Poland (Ethnically Lithuanian) | 24 September 1621 | Khotyn, Poland | Died of exhaustion whilst battling with Ottoman forces | [81] |
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny | Poland (Ethnically Ruthenian) | 20 April 1622 | Kyiv, Poland | Died of a gunshot wound | [82] |
Samuel Korecki | Poland (Ethnically Lithuanian) | 27 June 1622 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [83] |
Vuk Mandušić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Croatian) | 31 July 1648 | Zečevo, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [84] |
Ladislaus de Galánta | Hungary | 26 August 1652 | Nagyvezekény, Hungary | Killed in action | [85] |
Tamás Esterházy | Hungary | 26 August 1652 | Nagyvezekény, Hungary | Killed in action | [85] |
Lorenzo Marcello | Venice | 26 June 1656 | Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a cannonball | [86] |
Lazzaro Mocenigo | Venice | 17 July 1657 | Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a cannonball | [87] |
Petr Strozzi | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Italian) | 7 June 1664 | Novi Zrin, Holy Roman Empire | Gunshot to the head | [88] |
François de Vendôme | France | 25 June 1669 | Heraklion, Kingdom of Candia | Killed in action | [89] |
Prince Rzhevsky | Russia | 3 August 1678 | Chyhyryn, Cossack Hetmanate | Killed by an Ottoman grenade | [90] |
Georg Rimpler | Holy Roman Empire | 3 August 1683 | Vienna, Holy Roman Empire | Died of wounds from an Ottoman mine | [91] |
Yurii Khmelnytsky | Poland (Ethnically Zaporozhian Cossack) | 1685 | Kamaniçe, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [92] |
Bajo Pivljanin | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 7 May 1685 | Vrtijeljka, Montenegro | Decapitation | [93] |
Stojan Janković | Venice (Ethnically Serbian) | 23 August 1687 | Duvna, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [94] |
Otto Königsmarck | Holy Roman Empire | 15 September 1688 | Chalcis, Venice | Died of the plague during an Ottoman siege | [95] |
Adam Zrinski | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Croatian) | 19 August 1691 | Salankamen, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [96] |
Friedrich von Veterani | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Italian) | 21 September 1695 | Logoş, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [97] |
Antonije Znorić | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 21 September 1695 | Logoş, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [98] |
Constantin Brâncoveanu | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 15 August 1714 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [99] |
Ștefan Cantacuzino | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 7 June 1716 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [100] |
Mihai Cantacuzino | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 7 June 1716 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [100] |
Constantin Cantacuzino | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | 7 June 1716 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [100] |
Lodovico Flangini | Venice | 22 June 1717 | Termiye, Ottoman Empire | Died of a gunshot wound to the neck | [101] |
Khutunia Sharvashidze | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Georgian) | 14 December 1757 | Hresili, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [102] |
Pârvu Cantacuzino | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Romanian) | December 1769 | Comana, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [103] |
Daskalogiannis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 17 June 1771 | Heraklion, Ottoman Empire | Flayed to death | [104] |
Ali Bey al-Kabir | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Georgian) | 8 May 1773 | Kahire, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [105] |
Otto von Weismann | Russia (Ethnically Baltic German) | 3 July 1773 | Kaynarca, Ottoman Empire | Gunshot to the heart | [106] |
Zahir al-Umar | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Arab) | 22 August 1775 | Akka, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [107] |
Konstantinos Kolokotronis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 19 July 1780 | Kastania, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [108] |
Panagiotaros Venetsakis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 19 July 1780 | Kastania, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [108] |
Koča Anđelković | Holy Roman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | November 1788 | Tekija, Ottoman Empire | Impalement | [109] |
Nicholas Mavrogenis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 30 September 1790 | Byala, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [110] |
Johann Möller | Russia (Ethnically German) | 10 October 1790 | Kili, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds | [111] |
Rigas Feraios | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 24 June 1798 | Belgrad, Ottoman Empire | Strangulation | [112] |
Constantine Hangerli | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 18 February 1799 | Bükreş, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [113] |
Louis Bon | France | 19 May 1799 | Akka, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a cannonball | [114] |
Konstantinos Giannias | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 1805 | Baliabadra, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [115] |
Đuša Vulićević | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1805 | Semendire, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [116] |
Vasa Čarapić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1806 | Belgrad, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [117] |
Konda Bimbaša | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Albanian) | 1807 | Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [118] |
Thymios Vlachavas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 1809 | Yanya, Ottoman Empire | Dismemberment | [119] |
Stevan Sinđelić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 19 May 1809 | Čegar, Ottoman Empire | Suicide | [120] |
Giorgio Zuccato | Venice | 25 August 1810 | Gogoșu, Ottoman Empire | Killed by an Ottoman grenade | [121] |
Veljko Petrović | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1813 | Negotin, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a cannonball | [122] |
Zeka Buljubaša | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1813 | Zasavica, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [123] |
Jovan Kursula | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 16 August 1813 | Cvetke, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds | [124] |
Milija Zdravković | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1814 | Belgrad, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [125] |
Selim Khimshiashvili | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Georgian) | 3 June 1815 | Acara, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [126] |
Athanasios Diakos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 24 April 1821 | Termofil, Ottoman Empire | Impalement | [127] |
Diamandi Djuvara | Ottoman Empire (Ethnicity disputed) | 14 August 1821 | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [128] |
Markos Botsaris | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Souliot) | 21 August 1823 | Kerbeneş, Ottoman Empire | Gunshot to the head | [129] |
Elias Kormas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 20 May 1825 | Maniaki, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [130] |
Pieros Voidis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 20 May 1825 | Maniaki, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [130] |
Panagiotis Kefalas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 20 May 1825 | Maniaki, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [130] |
Dimitrios Dikaios | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 20 May 1825 | Maniaki, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [130] |
Papaflessas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 25 May 1825 | Maniaki, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [130] |
Marko Čarapić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1826 | Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [117] |
Đorđe Čarapić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 1826 | Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [117] |
Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 1826 | Miselonka, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [131] |
Michail Kokkinis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 10 April 1826 | Miselonka, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [131] |
Yannis Gouras | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Arvanite) | 1 October 1826 | Atina, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [132] |
Dionysios Vourvachis | Venice (Ethnically Greek) | 8 February 1827 | Kamatero, Ottoman Empire | Decapitation | [133] |
Tousias Botsaris | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Souliot) | 22 April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [134] |
Georgios Karaiskakis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Sarakatsani) | 23 April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [134] |
Ioannis Notaras | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 24 April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [134] |
Lampros Veikos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Souliot) | 24 April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [134] |
Giorgos Tzavelas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Souliot) | 24 April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [134] |
Georgios Drakos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Souliot) | April 1827 | Phalerum, Ottoman Empire | Killed in captivity | [134] |
Ivan Burtsev | Russia | 23 July 1829 | Bayburt, Ottoman Empire | Died of a gunshot wound to the chest | [135] |
Dah Polloshka | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Albanian) | 1845 | Yakova, Ottoman Empire | Capital punishment | [136] |
Andrey Karamzin | Russia | 31 May 1854 | Slatina, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [137] |
Karl Schilder | Russia (Ethnically Baltic German) | 23 June 1854 | Călărași, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds | [138] |
Vladimir Kornilov | Russia | 17 October 1854 | Sevastopol, Russia | Killed in action | [139] |
Vladimir Istomin | Russia | 19 March 1855 | Sevastopol, Russia | Killed by a cannonball | [139] |
Pavel Nakhimov | Russia | 12 July 1855 | Sevastopol, Russia | Died of wounds from a sniper rifle | [139] |
Nikolay Read | Russia | 4 August 1855 | Chorna, Russia | Killed in action | [140] |
Ioannis Dimakopoulos | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 9 November 1866 | Arkadi Monastery, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [141] |
Gavriil Marinakis | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 9 November 1866 | Arkadi Monastery, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [142] |
Stefan Karadzha | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 31 July 1868 | Rusçuk, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds | [143] |
Dimitar Obshti | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 10 January 1873 | Sofya, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [144] |
Vasil Levski | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 18 February 1873 | Sofya, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [145] |
Pecija | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 29 August 1875 | Jasenovac, Slavonian Frontier | Gunshot to the head | [146] |
Ilarion Dragostinov | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 10 May 1876 | Vratnik Pass, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [147] |
Georgi Benkovski | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 12 May 1876 | Ribaritsa, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [148] |
Hristo Botev | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 20 May 1876 | İvraca, Ottoman Empire | Gunshot to the chest | [149] |
Panayot Volov | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 26 May 1876 | Byala, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [150] |
Bacho Kiro | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 28 May 1876 | Tırnovo, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [151] |
Georgi Izmirliev | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 28 May 1876 | Yukarı Rahova, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [151] |
Tsanko Dyustabanov | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 15 June 1876 | Tırnovo, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [152] |
Mihailo Ilić | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Serbian) | 5 September 1876 | Javor, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [153] |
Aleksander Kovalevsky | Russia | 18 June 1877 | İncesu, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [154] |
Grigory Patsevich | Russia | 28 June 1877 | Doğubayazıt, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds | [154] |
Sefë Kosharja | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Albanian) | April 1881 | Slivova, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [155] |
Mic Sokoli | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Albanian) | April 1881 | Slivova, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [156] |
Pitu Guli | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Aromanian) | 12 August 1903 | Pitu Guli, Kruševo Republic | Killed in action | [157] |
Kottas | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 1905 | Manastır, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [158] |
Nikola Karev | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 27 April 1905 | Rayçani, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [159] |
Aleksandar Turundzhev | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 30 August 1905 | Manastır, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [160] |
Hristo Atanasov | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Bulgarian) | 11 March 1908 | Manastır, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [161] |
Petros Christou | Ottoman Empire (Ethnically Greek) | 21 June 1908 | Manastır, Ottoman Empire | Hanging | [162] |
William Shakespear | United Kingdom | 24 January 1915 | Lake Jarrab, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [163] |
Charles Doughty-Wylie | United Kingdom | 26 April 1915 | Cape Helles, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a sniper rifle | [164] |
Garth Walford | United Kingdom | 26 April 1915 | Cape Helles, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a sniper rifle | [164] |
George Braund | United Kingdom | 4 May 1915 | Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire | Killed by a sniper rifle | [165] |
William Bridges | Scotland | 18 May 1915 | Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire | Died of wounds from a sniper rifle | [166] |
Horace George | United Kingdom | 12 August 1915 | Suvla, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [167] |
Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp | United Kingdom | 12 August 1915 | Suvla, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [167] |
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The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, or simply the Ilinden Uprising, of August–October 1903, was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and carried out by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, with the support of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee, which included mostly Bulgarian military personnel. The name of the uprising refers to Ilinden, a name for Elijah's day, and to Preobrazhenie which means Feast of the Transfiguration. Some historians describe the rebellion in the Serres revolutionary district as a separate uprising, calling it the Krastovden Uprising, because on September 14 the revolutionaries there also rebelled. The revolt lasted from the beginning of August to the end of October and covered a vast territory from the western Black Sea coast in the east to the shores of Lake Ohrid in the west.
The Balkans and parts of this area may also be placed in Southeastern, Southern, Eastern Europe and Central Europe. The distinct identity and fragmentation of the Balkans owes much to its common and often turbulent history regarding centuries of Ottoman conquest and to its very mountainous geography.
The Kingdom of Serbia was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynasty. The Principality, under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, de facto achieved full independence when the very last Ottoman troops left Belgrade in 1867. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 recognized the formal independence of the Principality of Serbia, and in its composition Nišava, Pirot, Toplica and Vranje districts entered the South part of Serbia.
The History of the Serbs spans from the Early Middle Ages to present. Serbs, a South Slavic people, traditionally live mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and North Macedonia. A Serbian diaspora dispersed people of Serb descent to Western Europe, North America and Australia.
The Banat Bulgarians, also known as Bulgarian Roman Catholics and Bulgarians Paulicians or simply as Paulicians, are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which since the Chiprovtsi Uprising in the late 17th century began to settle in the region of the Banat, which was then ruled by the Habsburgs and after World War I was divided between Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. Unlike most other Bulgarians, they are Roman Catholic by confession and stem from groups of Paulicians and Roman Catholics from modern northern and northwestern Bulgaria.
The Battle of Nish was fought between the Crusaders led by John Hunyadi and Đurađ Branković and the Ottoman Empire led by Kasim Pasha. It saw the Crusaders capture the Ottoman stronghold of Nish (Niš) in Serbia, and defeat two armies of the Ottoman Empire. The Battle of Nish was part of Hunyadi's expedition known as the long campaign. Hunyadi, at the head of the vanguard, crossed the Balkans through the Gate of Trajan, captured Nish, defeated three Ottoman pashas, and after taking Sofia from the Ottomans, united with the royal army and defeated Sultan Murad II at Snaim (Kustinitza). The impatience of the king and the severity of the winter then compelled him to return home.
The Battle of Kruševac was fought on October 2, 1454 between the forces of the Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians, sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or originating from the region of Macedonia. Today, the larger part of this population is concentrated in Blagoevgrad Province but much is spread across the whole of Bulgaria and the diaspora.
The House of Sratsimir or Sracimir, also referred to as the Sratsimirovtsi, was a medieval Bulgarian dynasty which became the last ruling house of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1331–1422). The Stratsimir dynasty was matrilineally descended from the previous Bulgarian royal houses of Asen and Shishman. After its deposition following the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria, princes of the Sratsimir dynasty survived in exile in the neighbouring Kingdom of Hungary until at least the second half of the 16th century.
Kiril Živković also spelled Kiril Zhivkovich was a writer and Orthodox bishop.
Rūm millet was the name of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the Ottoman Empire. Despite being subordinated within the Ottoman political system, the community maintained a certain internal autonomy.
The Serbian Revival or Serbian national awakening refers to a period in the history of the Serbs between the 18th century and the de jure establishment of the Principality of Serbia (1878). It began in Habsburg territory, in Sremski Karlovci. The Serbian renaissance is said to have begun in 17th-century Banat. The Serbian Revival began earlier than the Bulgarian National Revival. The first revolt in the Ottoman Empire to acquire a national character was the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817), which was the culmination of the Serbian renaissance. According to Jelena Milojković-Djurić: "The first literary and learned society among the Slavs was Matica srpska, founded by the leaders of Serbian revival in Pest in 1826." Vojvodina became the cradle of the Serbian renaissance during the 19th century. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864) was the most instrumental in this period.
The Bulgarian–Serbian wars of 917–924 were a series of conflicts fought between the Bulgarian Empire and the Principality of Serbia as a part of the greater Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927. After the Byzantine army was annihilated by the Bulgarians in the battle of Achelous, the Byzantine diplomacy incited the Principality of Serbia to attack Bulgaria from the west. The Bulgarians dealt with that threat and replaced the Serbian prince with a protégé of their own. In the following years the two empires competed for control over Serbia. In 924 the Serbs rose again, ambushed and defeated a small Bulgarian army. That turn of events provoked a major retaliatory campaign that ended with the annexation of Serbia in the end of the same year.
The siege of Belgrade was a long siege by the forces of the Ottoman Empire, lasted about six or seven months in 1440. Belgrade was an important fortified town of the Serbian Despotate and the key fortress of the Hungarian defense line after the Ottoman subjugation of Serbia in 1439. The siege ended with a dramatic final assault, the Ottomans were repelled, and after the failed assault the Turks gave up the siege and returned home.