Battle of Dubica

Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe
Ottoman–Croatian Wars

Date	16 August 1513
Location	Dubica, Kingdom of Croatia 45°11′21″N 16°47′55″E / 45.189271°N 16.798529°E / 45.189271; 16.798529Coordinates: 45°11′21″N 16°47′55″E / 45.189271°N 16.798529°E / 45.189271; 16.798529
Result	Croatian victory

Belligerents

Ottoman Empire

Kingdom of Croatia

Commanders and leaders

Junuz-aga

Petar Berislavić
Nikola III Zrinski
Mihovil Frankopan
Franjo Berislavić
Ivan Karlović

Strength

7,000 light cavalry

unknown

Casualties and losses

3,000 killed

unknown

The Battle of Dubica (Croatian: Bitka kod Dubice) was a battle fought on 16 August 1513 between the Kingdom of Croatia and the Ottoman Empire. The Croatian army was commanded by Petar Berislavić, Ban of Croatia, while the Ottoman army was mostly composed of forces from the Sanjak of Bosnia under command of Sanjak-bey Junuz-aga. The two armies clashed near the town of Dubica in central Croatia, between the Sava and Una rivers. The battle resulted in a Croatian victory and heavy losses for the Ottoman side.

After a few unsuccessful Ottoman attacks at the beginning of the 16th century, apart from minor frictions and looting at the border, there were no major conflicts in Croatia and Hungary. On 20 August 1503 King Vladislaus II concluded a seven-year peace treaty with Sultan Bayezid II and determined the borders with the Ottoman Empire. The armistice was generally respected and was renewed in 1511 for five years. However, Bosnian Sanjak-beys and sipahis had not honored the new ceasefire and were often ravaging the countryside of the Croatian border towns. At the end of August 1511 the county of Modruš was heavily damaged.

In April 1512 Sultan Bayezid II was forced to abdicate the throne, and his son Selim I became the new sultan. Selim was more belligerent than his father and ignored all peace treaties signed with King Vladislaus, so Akıncı raids into Croatia became more frequent. In early Autumn 1512 the Ottomans conquered Srebrenik, Soko, Tešanj, and Brčko, basically the entire Banate of Srebrenik. At the same time the Ottomans crossed the Sava River and plundered the Slavonian Posavina to Una's mouth into the Sava. Croatian capital Knin was besieged on 27 January 1513. Unlike raids in the previous years, these actions constituted a war campaign of a wider scale in order to establish the means for further conquests of Croatia.

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