The
Battle of Kosovo (, ) took place on 15 June 1389 between the army led by the
Serbian Prince
Lazar Hrebeljanovic, and the invading army of the
Ottoman Empire under the command of
Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr. The army under Prince Lazar consisted of his own troops, a contingent led by Serbian nobleman
Vuk Brankovic, and a contingent sent from
Bosnia by King
Tvrtko I, commanded by
Vlatko Vukovic. Prince Lazar was the ruler of
Moravian Serbia, and the most powerful among the Serbian regional lords of the time, while Vuk Brankovic ruled
District of Brankovic located in a part of
Kosovo and other areas, recognizing Lazar as his overlord. The battle was fought on the in
Kosovo field, in the territory ruled by Brankovic, in what is today
Kosovo. Its site is about 5 kilometers northwest of the modern city of
Prishtina.