Siege of Krujë (1467)

Siege of Krujë (1467)
Part of Ottoman wars in Europe
Date 1467
Location Krujë, Albania
Result Albanian victory
Belligerents
League of Lezhë Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Skanderbeg Mehmed II

Pre-1443
Arianiti's campaigns
1443–1468
Torvioll – 1st Mokra – Otonetë – 1st Oranik – Svetigrad – 1st Krujë – Modrica – 1st Meçad – Pollog – Berat – 2nd Oranik – Albulena – 2nd Mokra – Macedonia – Macedonian raid – Ohrid – 1st Vaikal – 2nd Meçad – 2nd Vaikal – Kashari – 2nd Krujë – 3rd Krujë
Post-1468
4th Krujë
Contemporaneous campaigns

Venetian war – Italian expedition

The Third Siege of Krujë by the Ottoman Empire occurred in 1467 at Krujë in Albania.

A few months after the failure of the second siege, Mehmed II led an army into Albania in 1467. Skanderbeg for the first time attacked Mehmed frontally at Shkumbin valley in order to gain time for the civilian population retreating to the mountains. Then he retreated and Krujë was besieged for a third time, but on a much larger and more organized scale. While a contingent of troops kept the city and its forces pinned down, Ottoman armies came pouring in from Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Greece with the aim of keeping the whole country surrounded, thereby strangling Skanderbeg’s supply routes and limiting his mobility. Krujë held, and the staunch resistance forced Mehmed to break off the siege.

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