Battle of Varna - 10.11.1444

On November 10, 1444 at the Battle of Varna, called Memorable battle of nations, the crusader troops of the Polish-Hungarian King Vladislav III and the Hungarian general Janos Hunyadi were defeated by the Turkish troops of Sultan Murad II. The battle is waged between 20,000 Christian army and three times as many troops of the Turkish Sultan Murad II. It involved Bulgarians, Hungarians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Vlachs, Rusyns, Croats, Saxons, Lithuanians and a knightly crusade squad of Pope Eugene IV. After the battle, the Balkans and Southeastern Europe fell under Ottoman-Turkish rule for centuries. Varna march was the result of the formation of a broad anti-Ottoman alliance, which started in 1439 with the Florentine union, which set the Byzantine church under the rule of the Pope. It was joined by the Venetian Republic, Burgundy and Hungary, where the pope was able to achieve reconciliation between the heirs of Albrecht Habsburg nobility and chosen by King Vladislav III. Bulgarians placed wooden crosses back during the 5-century yoke in memory of those killed in the battle, in the center of the battlefield where Polish-Hungarian King Vladislav III Jagiello, named posthumously Varnenchik (“of Varna”), was killed. In 1935 was built a symbolic mausoleum of the King, and in 1964 with the construction of the museum building was built the memorial complex "Park-Museum Vladislav Varnenchik." (Photo: bg.wikipedia.org)