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At first, victory appeared to be on the side of the Serbs when the sultan was killed by a Serbian noble, Milosh Obilic (or Kobilic), who made his way into the Turkish camp on the pretext of being a deserter and forced his way into the sultan’s tent and stabbed him with a poisoned dagger. The confusion that followed was quickly quelled by Bayezid, Murad’s son, who succeeded in surrounding the...
in Serbia: Conquest by the Turks )...a defeat that has become hallowed in several great heroic ballads. The vision of Lazar on the eve of the battle, the alleged betrayal by the Bosnian Vuk Branković, the killing of Murad by Miloš Obilić, the succour brought to the wounded on the battlefield by the Maid of Kosovo—these and other stories have been immortalized in Serbian folk literature. They have...
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