Battle of Gorjani

Battle of Gorjani (1537)
	Part of the Little War in Hungary and Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War and Katzianer's Campaign
	; Troop movements during Katzianer's Campaign.
Date	9 October 1537
Location	Gorjani, Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Hungary; (present-day Croatia)
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Habsburg Monarchy Archduchy of Austria; Kingdom of Hungary; Kingdom of Croatia; Serbian Despotate; Duchy of Carniola; County of Tyrol;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Johann Katzianer; Ludwig Lodron †; Pavle Bakić †	Semendireli Mehmed Pasha (Governor of Belgrade)
Strength
~24,000	8,000
Casualties and losses
20,000 killed	very little

The Battle of Gorjani (Croatian: Bitka kod Gorjana, German: Schlacht bei Gorjani) or Battle of Đakovo (Hungarian: Diakovári csata) was fought on 9 October 1537 at Gorjani, a place in present-day Slavonia (today in eastern Croatia), between the towns of Đakovo and Valpovo, as part of the Little War in Hungary as well as the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.