Lala Şahin Pasha

لاله شاهين باشا

Lala Şahin Pasha, Murad I's field commander — in al-Sallabi's telling he led the Ottoman force at the Maritsa (Sırpsındığı) night attack that annihilated the Balkan coalition's camp before dawn 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Lala Şahin Pasha, Murad I's commander — in al-Sallabi's telling he led the Ottoman force at the Maritsa, striking the Balkan coalition's camp in the dark before dawn with a small body of men and destroying an army of near a hundred thousand, opening the Balkan road 1.

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وقعة نهر الماريتسا (صيرمن)
Related to
مراد الأول

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Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 58-59
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وقعة نهر الماريتسا (صيرمن)

Maritsa (Sırpsındığı), early in Murad I's reign — al-Sallabi has a Balkan coalition of some hundred thousand camped on the river near Edirne when Lala Şahin's smaller Ottoman force struck before dawn and destroyed it, opening the Balkans to Ottoman advance; news reaching Cairo was met with seven days of public celebration.