Siege of Golubac

Siege of Golubac
	Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
	; The Golubac fortress
Date	May 1428
Location	Golubac, Serbian Despotate44°39′15″N 21°37′42″E
Result	Ottoman victory; Serbia becomes vassal state of the Ottoman Empire; Ottomans invade Bosnia;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary; Wallachia; Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Commanders and leaders
Murad II	Sigismund; Zawisza Czarny †; Dan II of Wallachia
Strength
6,000	15,000 – 20,000
Casualties and losses
unknown	heavy casualties

The siege of Golubac (Hungarian: Galambóc) was a military conflict between the Hungarian–Wallachian–Lithuanian alliance and the Ottoman Empire in May 1428. This siege was the first battle in Hungarian military history in which the Hungarian army used significant artillery. However, they could not capture Golubac and were defeated by the Ottoman main army, led by Sultan Murad II. After the battle, most of Serbia and Bosnia was conquered by the Ottoman Army.

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