Siege of Belgrade (1440)

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Siege of Belgrade (1440)
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Serbian-Ottoman Wars
Date end of April 1440 – October 1440 Location Belgrade, Kingdom of Hungary Result Hungarian victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary Serbian Despotate
Commanders and leaders
Murad II Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu	Ivan Talovac
Strength
35,000	3,000–5,000
Casualties and losses
17,000 (early Christian sources)[3]	unknown

The siege of Belgrade was a long siege by the forces of the Ottoman Empire, lasted about six or seven months in 1440. Belgrade was an important fortified town of the Serbian Despotate and the key fortress of the Hungarian defense line after the Ottoman subjugation of Serbia in 1439. The siege ended with a dramatic final assault, the Ottomans were repelled, and after the failed assault the Turks gave up the siege and returned home.^[4]