During one attack on this city, the diplomat Hieronymus Balbus was sent to get help from the Holy Roman Empire, though his pleas were ignored at the Diet of Worms.
During one attack on this city, the diplomat Hieronymus Balbus was sent to get help from the Holy Roman Empire, though his pleas were ignored at the Diet of Worms. During another attack on this city, Giovanni da Capistrano (+) urged the Empire to defend it at the Diet of Frankfurt, but was only successful in amassing a peasant army. During that attack, Pope Calixtus III excommunicated Halley's Comet (*) as an evil omen and gave a brother-in-law of Michael Szilagyi the title of "Athlete of Christ", a man who died of the plague after thwarting the Ottoman siege here in 1456, John Hunyadi.  More recently, it was the target of Operation Allied Force, a NATO air campaign that destroyed a Chinese embassy. FTP, name this capital of Serbia.
During one attack on this city, the diplomat Hieronymus Balbus was sent to get help from the Holy Roman Empire, though his pleas were ignored at the Diet of Worms.
{Belgrade} (or {Beograd}) [1]