Battle of Pločnik
Battle of Pločnik
Part of: Turkish Wars
| date | 1386 |
|---|---|
| place | near Pločnik , Prokuplje |
| output | Victory of the Serbian Army. |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| unknown | unknown |
| losses | |
|
unknown |
unknown |
The battle of pločnik took place in spring 1386, according to other sources in 1387, when Pločnik far from Prokuplje between troops of the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and the army of the Ottomans under Murad I take.
The battle ended with a victory for the Serbian army. Neither the troop strength nor the losses of the two armies are known. On the Serbian side, auxiliary troops of the Bosnian King Tvrtko I and the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman are said to have fought. The Serbian victory was only able to slow the advance of the Ottomans slightly, in the same year the eastern Serbian city of Niš fell to the Ottomans. Up until the Battle of Bileća in 1388, Ottoman troops invaded Bosnia regularly.
See also
- Battle of the Mariza (1371)
- Battle of Dubravnica (1381)
- Battle of Bileća (1388)
- Battle of the Blackbird Field (1389)