Battle of Gorjani

Battle of Gorjani (1537)
Part of the Little War in Hungary and Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War and Katzianer's Campaign

Troop movements during Katzianer's Campaign.
Date9 October 1537
Location
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents

Habsburg Monarchy

Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Johann Katzianer
Ludwig Lodron 
Pavle Bakić 
Semendireli Mehmed Pasha (Governor of Belgrade)
Strength
~24,000 8,000
Casualties and losses
20,000 killed[1] very little

The Battle of Gorjani (Croatian: Bitka kod Gorjana, German: Schlacht bei Gorjani) or Battle of Đakovo (Hungarian: Diakovári csata) was fought on 9 October 1537 at Gorjani, a place in present-day Slavonia (today in eastern Croatia), between the towns of Đakovo and Valpovo, as part of the Little War in Hungary as well as the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War.

  1. ^ Jaques 2007, p. 1061.

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