In 1427, Stefan’s successor Đurađ Branković had to return Belgrade to the Hungarians, and Smederevo became the new capital. During his reign, the Ottomans captured most of the Serbian Despotate, unsuccessfully besieging Belgrade first in 1440 and again in 1456. As it presented an obstacle to their further advance into Central Europe, over 100,000 Ottoman soldiers launched the 1456 Siege of Belgrade, in which the Christian army under commander János Hunyadi successfully defended the city from the Ottomans, wounding Sultan Mehmed II. This battle has been characterized as having “decided the fate of Christendom”; the noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world to this day.
http://inserbia.info/today/2013/03/belgrade/
ht/ The Black Rose
It tolls for thee…
Pithy enough for ya?
Funny you mentioned this because today I was driving by my local church when the bells were ringing.
I think I’ll go out and buy a bell, a big one.
“Pithy enough for ya?” That’s what Sylvester said as he drowned Tweety Bird in the urinal.
: D
“Sufferin succotash”!
WTF is succotash, Sly?
I know. I heard through your Chrome.
Hell Fur, and here I thought you had overheard me listening to Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell?
Those “voices” don’t count.