The Battle of Dubravnica was fought in the summer of 1380 or December 1381, on the
Dubravnica River near
Paraćin
Paraćin ( sr-Cyrl, Параћин, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is located in the valley of the Velika Morava river, north of Kruševac and southeast of Kragujevac. In 2011 the town had a p ...
in today's central
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
, between the
Serbian forces of Prince
Lazar of Serbia
Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-cyr, Лазар Хребељановић; ca. 1329 – 15 June 1389) was a medieval Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empire. Lazar's state, ...
led by commanders Vitomir and Crep and the invading
Ottoman Turks of Sultan
Murad I
Murad I ( ota, مراد اول; tr, I. Murad, Murad-ı Hüdavendigâr (nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'', from fa, خداوندگار, translit=Khodāvandgār, lit=the devotee of God – meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 Jun ...
. Vitomir and Crep were the regional lords, and one of their fortresses, Petrus, was in the vicinity of the battle.
The Battle of Dubravnica was the first historical mention of any Ottoman movements into Prince Lazar's territory. The Serbian army emerged victorious, although details of the battle itself are scarce. After this battle the Turks didn't venture into Serbia until 1386, when their armies were routed near Pločnik.
See also
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Battle of Pločnik
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Battle of Bileća
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Battle of Kosovo
References
Sources
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* Marko Šuica, ''„Nemirno doba srpskog srednjeg veka“'', Beograd, 2000.
* ''„Istorija srpskog naroda II“'', Beograd, 1982.
* Ljubomir Stojanovic, ''"Start srpski rodoslovi i letopisi: Zbornik za istoriju, jezik, i knjilemost srpskog naroda"'', XVI (1927): 214.
External links
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Battles involving Serbia in the Middle Ages
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