Nikopol, Bulgaria
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Nikopol is a town in northern Bulgaria, the administrative center of Nikopol Municipality, part of Pleven Province, on the right bank of the Danube river, 4 kilometres downstream from the Danube’s con
View of Nikopol from the fortress
Capitulation of Nikopol fortress, July 4, 1877
The medieval Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Nikopol
View of the Danube at Nikopol in winter
Battle of Nicopolis
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The Battle of Nicopolis took place on 25 September 1396 and resulted in the rout of an allied Crusader army, assisted by the Venetian navy, at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising the siege of the D
Nikopol, Bulgaria
…was conquered by the Ottomans in 1395. Nikopol is therefore sometimes considered the capital of Bulgaria during these two years. It was the site of the Battle of Nicopolis, the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages, in 1396. At the fortress of Nicopolis, the united armies of Christian Europe headed by Hungarian king…
Miniature by Jean Colombe (c. 1475)
The Battle of Nicopolis, as depicted by Turkish miniaturist Nakkaş Osman in the Hünername, 1584–1588
The crusaders took eight days to cross the Danube at the Iron Gate
Titus Fay saves King Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis. Painting in the Castle of Vaja, creation of Ferenc Lohr, 1896.