User:Daizus/Drafts

I'll use this space to develop larger Wikified content and deliver more coherent materials instead of tiny additions.

Primary sources

• The life of Despot Stefan Lazarević, written c. 1431 by Constantine the Philosopher (Konstantin Kostenechki)
• The letter of Philippe de Mézières written in 1397
• Chronica Byzantina breviora, 16th century
• Laonic Chalcocondil, 1450-1470
• Macarios Melissenos (pseudo-Sphrantzes), second half of 16th century

Controversy

Due to the scarce but also contradictory information, there were long lasting historiograhpic debates on this battle.

Dating

There were several dates proposed.

May 17, 1395, K. J. Jireček (1876), ...

October 10, 1394, Alfons Huber (1883), ...

Other attempts

October 10, 1393, Franz Babinger (1944)

After Nicopolis (September 28, 1396), Johann Christian von Engel (year?)

References

• (in Romanian) Alexandru V. Diţă, 17 mai 1395, O dată importantă în istoria universală, Roza Vânturilor, Bucharest, 1995
• (in Romanian) Alexandru V. Diţă, "Fuga" şi "restaurarea" lui Mircea cel Mare, Roza Vânturilor, Bucharest, 1995
• (in Romanian) Gheorghe Pungă, "Câteva consideraţii privitoare la tratatul munteano-maghiar din 7 martie 1395" in Studii de istorie medievală şi de ştiinţe auxiliare, Demiurg, Iaşi, 1999, pp. 67-75
• (in French) Dan Ioan Mureşan, "Avant Nicopolis : la campagne de 1395 pour le contrôle du Bas-Danube" in Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, v. 83, Vincennes, 2003, pp. 115-132
• (in French) Emanuel Constantine Antoche, "Les expéditions de Nicopolis (1396) et de Varna (1444) : une comparaison", in Mediævalia Transilvanica, v. 4:1-2, 2000, pp. 28-74
• Norman P. Zacour, Harry W. Hazard (eds.), The impact of the Crusades on Europe, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
• Peter F. Sugar, Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804, University of Washington Press, 1983
• Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant 1204-1571, vol. I, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1976