Today is the 628th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo

Serbs are really a loser people. Have they ever won a battle or a war in all their history?

>Aftermath

>Both armies were annihilated out in the battle, both Lazar and Murad lost their lives, and the remnants of their armies eventually retreated from the battlefield.

>Murad's son Bayezid strangled his younger brother Yakub Çelebi upon hearing that their father had died, becoming the sole heir to the Ottoman throne.

>The Serbs were left with too few men to defend their lands effectively, while the Turks had many more troops in the east.

>Furthermore, in response to Ottoman pressure, some Serbian noblemen wed their daughters, including the daughter of Prince Lazar, to Bayezid.] In the wake of these marriages, Stefan Lazarević became a loyal ally of Bayezid, going on to contribute significant forces to many of Bayezid's future military engagements, including the Battle of Nicopolis. Eventually, the Serbian Despotate would, on numerous occasions, attempt to defeat the Ottomans in conjunction with the Hungarians until its final defeat in 1459 and again in 1540

Modern culture

>The Battle of Kosovo is particularly important to Serbian history, tradition, and national identity.

>The day of the battle, known in Serbian as Vidovdan (St. Vitus' day), is an important part of Serb ethnic and Serbian national identity, with notable events in Serbian history falling on that day, among which are:

>in 1876 Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire (Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78) in 1881 Austria-Hungary and the Principality of Serbia signed a secret alliance; in 1914 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was carried out by Gavrilo Princip (although a coincidence that his visit fell on that day, Vidovdan added nationalist symbolism to the event) in 1921 Serbian king Alexander I proclaimed the Vidovdan Constitution in 1989, on the 600th anniversary of the battle, Serbian political leader Slobodan Milošević delivered the Gazimestan speech on the site of the historic battle.

>The Tomb of Sultan Murad, a site in Kosovo Polje where Murad I's internal organs were buried, has gained a religious significance for the local Muslims, a monument was built by Murad I's son Bayezid I at the tomb, becoming the first example of Ottoman architecture in the Kosovo territory.

>>3010776
>As the battle turned against the Serbs it is said that one of their knights who later was identified as Miloš Obilić, pretended to have deserted to the Ottoman forces.

>When brought before Murad, Obilić pulled out a hidden dagger and killed the Sultan by slashing him, upon which the Sultan's bodyguards immediately killed him.

What a loser

>>3010776
>As the battle turned against the Serbs it is said that one of their knights who later was identified as Miloš Obilić, pretended to have deserted to the Ottoman forces.

>When brought before Murad, Obilić pulled out a hidden dagger and killed the Sultan by slashing him, upon which the Sultan's bodyguards immediately killed him.

These two parts are not historically accurate and based in myth. Murat was probably killed in a cavalry charge, as claimed by the Bosnian contemporary sources. That version with the hidden dagger comes from latter Turkish sources and has become a staple in Serbian poems and myths and was later depicted in the movie. Other Turkish sources claim that he was stabbed by a wounded soldier who he thought was dead.

>>3010794
Pulled a Gavrilo Princip on Murad before it was popular.

>>3010795

Yes I forgot to mention that's not historically accurate and it comes from a poem

Sultan Murad was killed on the battlefield instead, and it's not even known if Milos Obilic was a real person

>>3010788
Milosevic was extradited by the democratic Serbian government on this day in 2001, he reportedly only asked the guards "Do you know it's Vidovdan?"
Also, Serbia could be getting it's first gay and female prime minister. (Disregard the fact that Serbia had a gay pm between 1929 and 1932)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2HWxHV-4mM

>>3010778
WW1?

>>3010887

Serbs lost more than 10% of their entire population during WW1 and lost over 1 Million people during WW2

>>3010887
Serbian uprising, first balkan war, second balkan war, ww1, ww2, numerous battles before the battle of Kosovo

>>3010776
what about that battle where most of serbian army would drown in some river while fending off small ottoman force?

>>3011113

Turns out that was a propaganda material made by some Greek Ottoman

>>3010776
>Today is the 628th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo
>The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June

>>3011173
Calendar difference

>>3011173

Julijanski kalendar steka 14 dana stari model

>>3010968
>k/d retard

>>3011163
it did?