Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (Croatian Empire)

The Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War is a conflict that started out as a series of low-intensity conflicts and ended in large scale combat the freed the Balkans from Ottoman rule.

Battle of Krbava Field
9 September 1493 After the fall of the Bosnian Kingdom to the Ottoman Turks in 1463 the Kingdom of Croatia was under constant threat of invasion. In order to stop such invastions the Croats rallied their troops under the command of Ban Mirko Derenčin at Krbava field to lay in wait and trap the Ottomans. the Ottoman sanjak-bey Hadım Yakup Paşa led his 8,000 light cavalry into the Croat trap. Three-thousand Croat heavy cavalry and 8,000 infantry made short work of the invading army. About 500 Croats and 6,500 Ottomans were killed. The surviving Turks were taken prisoner.