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In 1394 Beyazid I crossed the Danube river leading 40,000 men, an impressive force at the time. Mircea had only about 10,000 men so he couldn't survive an open fight. He chose what today we would call guerrilla warfare by starving the opposing army and utilizing small, localized attacks and retreats (a typical form of asymmetric warfare). On October 10, 1394, the two armies finally clashed at the Battle of Rovine, which featured a forested and swampy terrain, thus preventing the Ottomans from properly spreading their army; Mircea finally won the fierce battle and threw the Ottomans out of the country.

Helped by Sigismund of Luxemburg, Mircea then also got rid of Vlad Uzurpatorul, a puppet of the Ottoman's Sultan, who was seeking the throne. In 1396 Mircea participated in an anti-Ottoman crusade started by Hungary's monarch. The crusade ended with the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Nicopolis on September 25. In the next year, 1397, Mircea stopped another Ottoman expedition that crossed the Danube, and in 1400 he defeated yet another expedition of Turks crossing the country.

avrupa'da ortaçağın kapanıp yeniçağın açılışı fatih'in istanbul'u fethiyle değil, Colombus'un amerika'yı keşfiyle başlar.
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