Battle of Grobnik Field

Battle of Grobnik Field
Part of Mongol invasion of Europe
Mongols in Hungary and Croatia
Date 1242 Location Grobnik Field Result Croatian victory
Belligerents
Mongols	Croats
Commanders and leaders
Batu Khan Khadan	King Béla IV of Hungary and Croatia
Strength
30,000	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Almost entire army	Unknown

The Battle of Grobnik field is a legendary battle that supposedly occurred in 1242 between the Croats and the Mongols (also called "Tatars") of the Golden Horde in the area below the Grobnik Castle in the present-day Čavle municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, western Croatia. The legend was recorded as late as the 16th century and was later a focus of an early romantic poem The Grobnik Field written in 1842 by Dimitrija Demeter for the 600th anniversary of the battle. Legend has it that, in a last-ditch struggle, Croats from all over the region gathered at the field and killed thousands of Mongols, who withdrew, never to return.