Major conflict955 CE

Battle of Lechfeld (955)

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Lechfeld · south of Augsburg · River Lech · Bavaria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Over 10-12 August 955, King Otto I of Germany decisively defeated a large Magyar raiding army on the Lechfeld floodplain south of Augsburg. The victory effectively ended major Hungarian incursions into Western Europe and bolstered Otto's claim to imperial authority.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Germany (East Francia)
Magyars (Hungarians)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Lechfeld
Britannica: Battle of Lechfeld
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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