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How Did 1,000 Ottomans Break a 20,000-Strong Camp? | Battle of Maritsa 1371 | History Documentary — In September 1371, a Serbian host of roughly 20,000 marched toward Edirne (Adrianople), convinced the Ottomans in Europe could not stop them. But near Chernomen on the Maritsa River, exhaustion, poor reconnaissance, and a dangerously relaxed perimeter created the perfect opening.

In this history documentary, we trace how Lala Şahin Pasha, with a detachment of about 1,000 Ottoman horsemen, used darkness, speed, and deception—torches carried to mimic larger numbers—to ignite confusion inside a sleeping camp. As panic spreads, leadership fractures: Despot Uglješa falls fighting, while King Vukašin flees toward the river and drowns in the chaos. The result is more than a battlefield defeat—it becomes a turning point in the collapse of central Serbian authority and the accelerating Ottoman expansion into Europe.

We also set the wider context: the Ottoman foothold after Çimpe and Gallipoli, the fragmentation of the Serbian realm after Dušan’s death, and why Maritsa mattered so deeply for the Balkans in the years that followed—leading toward the next great confrontation at Kosovo (1389).

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