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The Battle for Varna 1443-1444

2004
This site is about the Varna battle, which took place on November 10, 1444. Stories of the tragic event and death of young Polish-Hungarian King Vladislav III Yagello are still alive in the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula. It was the last crusade of the Middle Ages for freedom of many nations at the beginning of the Ottoman invasions on the continent.