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Conquest of the strategic port city and gulf of Gemlik on the Marmara Sea by the Ottoman Emirate 1333 Naval victories of Umur Bey against the Serbian infantry, Byzantine and Genoese fleets off the Aegean coasts of Anatolia, Rhodes , the Dardanelles Strait, Macedonia and Morea
Conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453. After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (or in 1358 – disputable due to a change in the Byzantine calendar), (see Süleyman Pasha) which provided it with Gallipoli as a basis for operations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th ...
The Ottoman Empire [k] (/ ˈ ɒ t ə m ə n / ⓘ), also called the Turkish Empire, [23] [24] was an imperial realm [l] that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. [25] [26] [27]
A month prior to the siege of Nice, France supported the Ottomans with an artillery unit during the Ottoman conquest of Esztergom in 1543. France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule in both Southern and Central Europe, became strong allies during this period. The alliance was economic and military, as the ...
After the conquest the city was the capital. 1329: June 10–11: Battle of Pelekanon. The Ottomans completed their conquest of Bithynia and the north-western corner of Anatolia. 1328-31: March 2: Siege of Nicaea. The Ottomans conquered Nicaea. 1362: March: Orhan Gazi's to death. Murad I accession to the throne. 1365: Battle of Sırp Sındığı.
On 28 July, an Ottoman fleet of 128 ships, including 28 galleys, arrived near the Neapolitan city of Otranto. Many of the troops had come from the 1480 Siege of Rhodes . The garrison and the citizens of Otranto retreated to the city's castle.
The Ottoman conquest of the Morea occurred in two phases, in 1458 and 1460, and marked the end of the Despotate of the Morea, one of the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire, which had been extinguished in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the second reign of Mehmed II. The Ottoman Empire upon the death of Suleiman the Magnificent. The Ottoman Empire of the Classical Age experienced dramatic territorial growth. The period opened with the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481) in 1453.