Battle of Leskovac

Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe

Date	September 24, 1454
Location	Near Leskovac
Result	Serbian victory

Belligerents

Serbian Despotate

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Nikola Skobaljić

unknown

Strength

unknown, but smaller army size

unknown, but larger army size

Casualties and losses

unknown

heavy

Medieval Serbian–Ottoman Wars

Gallipoli Stephaniana Sırp Sındığı Maritsa Dubravnica Savra Pločnik Bileća Kosovo Field Tripolje Kosmidion Despotovac Vitosha Pass Smederevo Belgrade Novo Brdo Niš Zlatica Kunovica Kruševac Leskovac Smederevo Belgrade

The Battle of Leskovac took place on September 24, 1454. During the Ottoman invasion, two Serbian armies were set up, one in Kosovo, and the other in Dubočica, near Leskovac. A large Ottoman force headed from Macedonia was met by Nikola Skobaljić and the Serbs scored a decisive victory over the Ottomans. Nikola Skobalić continued his forays against the Ottomans, operating in Southern Serbia and the Leskovac area, and won several major victories against the armies of the Sultan until Mehmed II himself and to confront the Serbs at the Battle of Trepanje, where Voivode Nikola and his men fought to the last man, inflicting massive casualties on the much larger Ottoman force.^[1]

Notes

↑ Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, (Princeton University Press, 1978), 110.

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