Battle of Varna

Battle of Varna
	Part of the Crusade of Varna and the Ottoman wars in Europe
	; The battle of Varna (1879) by Jan Matejko; The episode of King Władysław attack on the Ottoman camp
Date	10 November 1444
Location	Near Varna, Ottoman Empire; Present-day Bulgaria43°13′N 27°53′E / 43.217°N 27.883°E
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Varna Crusaders: Kingdom of Poland; Kingdom of Hungary; Kingdom of Croatia; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Kingdom of Bohemia; Principality of Wallachia; Bulgarian rebels; Kingdom of Bosnia; Papal States; Teutonic Knights Naval assistance:; Duchy of Burgundy; Republic of Venice; Republic of Ragusa; Byzantine Empire; ;
Commanders and leaders
Murad II; Prince Mehmed; Karaca Pasha	Władysław III †; John Hunyadi; Mircea II; Fruzhin; Julian Cesarini †; Stephen III Báthory †; Michael Szilágyi; Franko Talovac; Jan Čapek of Sány; Simon Rozgonyi †; John de Dominis †; Rafael Herczeg
Strength
Around 60,000 40,000–50,000 Anatolian troops; 10,000 Rumelian troops;	20,000 (6,000 Hungarians, 5,000 troops by Hunyadi, 4,000 Polish cavalry, 4,000 Wallachian cavalry, 1,000 Crusaders recruited by Cesarini);
Casualties and losses
Unknown	About half the army; c. 10,000
	Location within Bulgaria Battle of Varna (Black Sea)

The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in what is today eastern Bulgaria. The Ottoman army under Sultan Murad II (who did not actually rule the sultanate at the time) defeated the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, John Hunyadi (acting as commander of the combined Christian forces) and Mircea II of Wallachia. It was the final battle of the unsuccessful Crusade of Varna, a last-ditch effort to prevent further Ottoman expansion into the Balkans.