I wonder what the turkish historians think about this battle. Was this an important battle? Is this taught in schools?

In Hungary this battle is considered to a great victory which illustrates the key factors of the ottoman-hungarian wars. (Historians like it.)

It isn't taught in the schools.

I have a pretty big Ottoman source that includes the small victories of Jan Hunyadi and Hungarians-which are not known in Turkey so much-against Ottomans but it doesn't include this one.

And I don't know this battle.

Well it did not surprise me. It was a minor battle. Neither the hungarian nor the ottoman main army participated in it. In Hungary it is well know because of the propaganda of King Matthias's chronicler. I have just read a good description and  assay of the battle, and I was curious the turkish oppinion.

The historians like this battle  since it illustrates well the changing positions in the ottoman-hungarian power relation. The casulties of the ottomans were two or three times bigger than the hungarian’s, but they were able to recover much easier. The ottoman manpower and income was much larger than the hungarian. Altough this victory was a succes in the short round it also indicates that the defense of Hungary is increasingly more and more difficult.

About the battle:

In 1479 a smaller ottoman army (cca. 15 000 men) attacked Transylvania with the unwilling aid of the walachian prince Tepelus Basarab. According to my sources it might be a revenge for the earlier hungarian champaigns in Bosnia or to stop the hungarian continous intervention in Wallachia. This army was led by 3 well-known beys: Isa bey the leader of the army, Mihal-oglu Ali bey, Malkoc-oglu Bali bey (Maybe I misspelled their name.) The hungarian army was led by István Báthori the voivod of Transylvania and Pál Kinizsi the general-captain of the Lower Parts of Hungary. The hungarians were aided by the serbian despot Vuk Brankovic and maybe (the sources are obscure) Laiota Basarab’s small vlach contingent.

The battle began after duel of a turkish cavalryman and a saxon warrior. At the centre Isa bey rolled back the transylvanian troops. The voivod himself was injured and only saved by one of his soldiers who took him up to his horse. At the ottoman right wing the fight was drawn between Bali bey and the serb-vlach-hungarian troops led by the despot. At the other wing Ali bey frightened by the heavy cavalry of Kinizsi „tacticaly withdrawed” without a fight. So Kinizsi flanked the ottoman center and saved the day.  The cavalry fled, only the wallachian infantry held out. According to the sources they fight so brave that the hungarians forced to use the heavy calvary to beat them.

There are three main sources of the battle:

1.       The Chronicle of Antonio Bonfini (a hungarian court chronicler)

2.       The Chronicle of Kemalpasazade (in the 7th volume)

3.       The narrative of a saxon participant (in german language)

There is a link to a map of the battle. (I did not find any english description) http://crowland.uw.hu/images/csata/kenyermezo.html

I find it but it is not a major war.

Originally posted by TJK Is the Kenyermezo equal to Bread Field ? I like this battle very much, mainly due to the Kinizsi's "macabra dance" after battle

Yes. kenyér=bread, mezõ=filed

Kenyérmezõ is Campia Painii in Roumanian. (I think)

Well this dance may be true, but Bonfini rather changed the story to favour Kinizsi.