Nikola Skobaljić

Nikola Skobaljić
Born Nikola Skobaljić
Died 16.11.1454
Title voivode of Dubočica
Religion Serbian Orthodox Christianity

Nikola Skobaljić (Serbian: Никола Скобаљић ; 1430-16.11.1454) was a mid 15th-century Serbian voivode (Vojvoda) who ruled a region around Leskovac, Southern Serbia, during the rule of Đurađ Branković (r. 1427–1456). He came from Dubočica, and was seated at Zelen Grad (Skobaljić Grad).

After Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II had conquered Constantinople, he attacked the Serbian Despotate in July 1454.[1] One of the Serbian Armies was at Dubočica, led by Nikola Skobaljić. A second army was near Sitnica, in Kosovo.

Skobaljić's army was cut off from Serbia's north, but managed to decisively defeat a much larger invading Ottoman army in the Battle of Banja, near Leskovac, on September 24.[2]

Skobaljić's continued resistance to the Ottoman invasion lasted two more months. Sultan Mehmed, furious at the failure of his Generals against the Voivode, personally took command of the Ottomans and finally defeated Skobaljić's army at Trepanja on 16 November 1454. Skobaljić was captured and killed by impalement, along with his uncle by the Ottoman Turks.[3][4]

Government offices
Preceded by
Jug Bogdan		 Duke of Zelen-Grad
under Đurađ Branković
fl. 1454 		Succeeded by
under Stefan Branković

See also

References

  1. ↑ "[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1b)". rastko.rs. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  2. ↑ Babinger, Franz, William C. Hickman and Ralph Manheim, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, 1978.
  3. ↑ Mihailović, K. (1975). Memoirs of a Janissary. Published under the auspices of the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, American Council of Learned Societies, by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  4. ↑ Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time: p. 110

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