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3 unusual facts about Novo Brdo Fortress


Novo Brdo Fortress

In the local registers names of various priests that served the community have survived like the Albanian Ginus filius Georgii de Nouaberda and the Ragusan Pasko Bobaljević eanonieus Ragusii et plebanus Novi Montis.

In the north wall, near the north tower of the Lower Town is a pedestrian gate which was used for sallies during the siege.

Although the rest of Serbia was under Ottoman occupation for more than a year, during the two-year siege the residents of Novo Brdo stubbornly defended and even launched two attacks to repel the Ottoman forces, but they were unsuccessful and lost the battles of Gračanica, on 6 August 1439 and Makreš in 1440.



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