Battle of Olšava

The Battle of Olšava was an engagement of Bohemian and Hungarian troops near the Olšava River along the frontier of the two realms in May 1116.[1][2] The event started as a peaceful meeting between the young Stephen II of Hungary and Vladislaus I of Bohemia, according to Hungarian chronicles.[2] The Czech Cosmas of Prague wrote that the Hungarians came to the border to provocate a war.[3]

References
  1. Makk 1994, p. 19.
  2. Kristó 2003, p. 96.
  3. Kristó 2003, p. 97.

Sources
  • Kristó, Gyula (2003). Háborúk és hadviselés az Árpádok korában [Wars and Tactics under the Árpáds] (in Hungarian). Szukits Könyvkiadó. ISBN 963-9441-87-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Makk, Ferenc (1989). The Árpáds and the Comneni: Political Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century (Translated by György Novák). Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-5268-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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