Battle of Varna

Battle of Varna
	Part of the Crusade of Varna and the Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
	; 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	Kingdom of Hungary ; Kingdom of Croatia ; Kingdom of Poland ; Principality of Wallachia
Commanders and leaders
Murad II ; Mehmed II ; Şehabeddin Pasha ; Karaca Pasha ; Karaca Bey †	Władysław III (MIA) ; John Hunyadi ; Michael Szilágyi ; Stephen III Báthory † ; Simon Rozgonyi † ; John de Dominis † ; Franko Talovac ; Mircea II ; Julian Cesarini ; Jan Čapek ; Fruzhin
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; ; ; 44,000–55,000 30,000 Hungarian and Polish troops (15,000 cavalry, 15,000 infantry); 4,000–10,000 Wallachian troops; 10,000–15,000 troops- Lithuanians, Croats, Moldavians, Serbs, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Teutonic Knights and Papal troops;
Casualties and losses
Minimal or heavy Up to 7,000 killed; (Ottoman sources)	Heavy, about half the army 40,000–51,000 killed or captured; (Ottoman sources)
	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.