 Turkish marauders attacked Transylvania and Vojvodina several times between 1474 and 1475.The attacks led to the depopulation of some areas with a number of villages abandoned by their inhabitants.After the Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79) in the spring of 1479, a major Ottoman army convened under Szendrő (today Smederevo, Serbia), above all, Akıncıs.