Kossovo

Kossovo, the 'Field of Blackbirds,' a plain in Turkey, near the Servian frontier, west of the Prishtina, on which two sanguinary battles were fought—(1) between Sultan Murad I. and the Servians under their Tsar Lazar on 15th June 1389; both sovereigns fell, and the Servians lost their independence in consequence of their defeat; (2) between the great Hungarian general Hunyady and Sultan Murad II., on 17th to 19th October 1448, when the former was defeated. See Madame Mijatovich, Serbian National Songs about Kosovo (Lond. 1881).