Siege of Jajce (1464)

Siege of Jajce
Date 10 July–24 August 1464 Location Jajce Fortress Result Hungarian victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Mehmed II	Emeric Zápolya
Units involved
	Garrison
Strength
30,000 men[1]

The siege of Jajce took place between 10 July and 24 August 1464, during the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, when an Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II made a new attempt to retrieve Bosnia and conquer the strategic fortress of Jajce, south of Banjaluka. Despite massive bombardment, the final Turkish assault was heavily repulsed and after hearing that King Mathias of Hungary was approaching with a relief army, Mehmed abandoned the siege.

Battle[]

Jajce had been conquered by the Hungarians in December 1463, after a siege that followed Matthias Corvinus' offensive into Bosnia in late September 1463.^[2] It is said that Corvinus managed to take over sixty places in Bosnia, many of which were fortified.^[2] In July and August 1464, Sultan Mehmed II personally commanded the siege to take back Jajce.^[2] The Ottoman army had probably set out from Edirne in late May according to C. Imber, 'since Malipiero dates the siege of Jajce to between 10 July and 24 August, and Enveri [...] also says that it began in July'.^[3]

The main body of the Ottoman army reached Jajce on 10 July 1464.^[4] The Hungarian defense withstood the attack, as news of Corvinus' advance from the Sava reached the Ottoman army and forced Mehmed II to abandon baggage, throw his cannons into the river, and retreat to Sofia in August^[2] or September,^[5] where the army wintered.^[6]

Mehmed Bey Minnetoğlu was appointed the governor of Bosnia after this second siege of Jajce.^[7]

References[]

Sources[]

• Imber, Colin (1990). The Ottoman empire: 1300-1481. Isis. p. 190. ISBN 978-975-428-015-9.
• Hunyadi, Zsolt; Laszlovszky, József (2001). The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity. Central European University Press. Dept. of Medieval Studies. ISBN 963-9241-42-3.
• Setton, Kenneth M. (1978). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. pp. 250–. ISBN 0-87169-127-2.
• Šabanović, Hazim (1959). Bosanski pašaluk: postanak i upravna podjela. Oslobodenje.
• Zsolt Hunyadi; József Laszlovszky; Central European University. Dept. of Medieval Studies (2001). The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity. Central European University Press. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-963-9241-42-8.
• Jaques, T.; Showalter, D.E. (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9.