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Landings at Lepanto in Greece and Veneto in Italy 1477 1478 Conquest of Vonitsa, Lefkas, Cephalonia, and Zante [4] 1463 First siege and capture of Otranto: 1480 First siege of Rhodes. Conquest of Herzegovina. 1480 1481 1482 Ottoman conquest of Kilia (Kiliya) and Akkerman(Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) 1484 Landings at the Balearic Islands, Corsica and Pisa
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa. The number of ...
The Ottoman Empire initiates forced deportation of Armenians. 1915: April 25: The Gallipoli Campaign: Under the command of Mustafa Kemal, the Ottoman army successfully repels Britain invasion of the Dardanelles in Turkey. December 7 Siege of Kut. Ottoman defense just outside of Baghdad, leading to a major defeat for the British.
Military campaigns and theatres of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Military campaigns involving the Ottoman Empire" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The growth of the Ottoman Empire. The map is showing Suleiman's conquests in comparison with his predecessors and successors. The imperial campaigns (Ottoman Turkish: سفر همايون, romanized: sefer-i humāyūn) [Note 1] were a series of campaigns led by Suleiman, who was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. [1]
The Ottoman Empire was the first of the three Islamic Gunpowder Empires, followed by Safavid Persia and Mughal India. By the 14th century, the Ottomans had adopted gunpowder artillery. [2] By the time of Sultan Mehmed II, they had been drilled with firearms and became "perhaps the first standing infantry force equipped with firearms in the world."
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Ottoman dispositions, April 1915. Fifth Army (Otto Liman von Sanders) [9] III Corps (Mehmet Esat Bülkat) 7th Division; 9th Division; 19th Division (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) XV Corps (Hans Kannengiesser) 3rd Division; 11th Division; Dardanelles Fortified Area Command; One aircraft squadron; Note: When the campaign commenced, the Fifth Army ...