Wybrane problemy upadku Tyrnowa

• Authors: Kirił Marinow

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EN

Selected Problems of Tâmovo’s Fall

Abstracts

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This article is devoted to a few aspects of Tǎrnovo’s fall, in the year 1393. These problems in the author’s opinion have not lived to witness a satisfactory solution until now. In the first part of the article the author rejected an opinion, according to which patriarch Euthymius was the commander of the Bulgarian capital’s defence. In the second part he answered the question, who, from the ottoman side, commanded the siege of Tǎrnovo? The analysis of the sources leads to conclusion, that Bayezid I, the then ottoman ruler, was at the head of the Turkish army, by the walls of the town. In the third part author expresses criticism of J. Andreev’s theses, concerning the reasons for the offence and circumstances, in which Turkish expedition against Tǎrnovo came into effect. He formulates the thesis according to which the purpose of this expedition was to subjugate John Šišman and to prevent him from joining the coalition, which had been created by Zigmond of Luxembourg. In the fourth part the author confronts different information from the sources and different views of the scholars, concerning the number of the ottoman army, which besieged the town. Next, he arrives at a conclusion, that, there were probably around 30-40 thousands warriors. In the fifth part he refers to a question of a possible participation of the Vidin’s tsar, John Sracimir, and the ruler of Velbužd, Konstantin Dragaš, in the ottoman expedition against Tǎrnovo. The sources don’t allow to determine this issue unambiguously, although it’s possible, that the armies of these rulers didn’t take participation in the siege. The last part of this article refers to the problem of a possible relief for Tǎrnovo, organized by John Šišman. Author draws a conclusion, that contemporaneously existing sources don’t allow to produce a thesis, in light of which the Bulgarian tsar really organized a military help for his capital, during the ottoman siege.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 80
• Pages: 139-160

Dates

published

2005

Contributors

author

Kirił Marinow

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Biblioteka Nauki

18038809