Lechfeld, Battle of

Lechfeld, Battle of
(955) Battle in which the German king Otto I decisively defeated an invasion by the Magyars.

Fought on the Lechfeld, a plain near present-day Augsburg, Germany, it marked the last Hungarian effort to invade Germany.

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