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1480 1481 1482 Ottoman conquest of Kilia (Kiliya) and Akkerman(Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) 1484 Landings at the Balearic Islands, Corsica and Pisa 1487 1490 Landings at Elche, Almeria, Málaga 1490 1495 Landings at the Gulf of Taranto 1496 Conquest of Montenegro (Zeta under the Crnojevići) 1496 1499 Ottoman-Venetian Wars: 1499 1503 Battle of ...
Mehmet II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد الثانى Meḥmed-i sānī, Turkish: II.Mehmet), (also known as el-Fatih (الفاتح), "the Conqueror", in Ottoman Turkish), or, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet) (March 30, 1432, Edirne – May 3, 1481, Hünkârcayırı, near Gebze) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Rûm until the conquest) for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and ...
Battle of Ankara. The Battle of Ankara or Angora (Ottoman Turkish: آنقره محاربهسی, romanized: Anḳara Muḥârebesi) was fought on 28 July 1402, [b] at the Çubuk plain near Ankara, between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the emir of the Timurid Empire, Timur. The battle was a major victory for Timur, and it led ...
The Byzantine–Ottoman wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Byzantine Greeks and Ottoman Turks and their allies that led to the final destruction of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. The Byzantines, already having been in a weak state even before the partitioning of their Empire following the 4th Crusade ...
Apart from Constantinople and some territory in Greece, mainly the Peloponnese, the Byzantines were left with an empire in name only. 1345–47. Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347. Ottoman Empire (1345–1347) John VI Kantakouzenos. Serbia (1342–1343) Beylik of Aydin (1342/3–1345) Beylik of Saruhan.
The Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Klasik Çağ) concerns the history of the Ottoman Empire from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 until the second half of the sixteenth century, roughly the end of the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566). During this period a system of patrimonial rule based on the absolute ...
The Portuguese expedition to Otranto in 1481, which the Portuguese call the Turkish Crusade (Portuguese: Cruzada Turca), arrived too late to participate in any fighting.On 8 April 1481, Pope Sixtus IV issued the papal bull Cogimur iubente altissimo, which called for a crusade against the Ottomans, who had occupied Otranto, in southern Italy.
Historiography (Ghaza, Decline) v. t. e. The Ottoman Interregnum or Ottoman Civil War[8] (Turkish: Fetret devri, [9] lit. 'Interregnum period') was a civil war in the Ottoman Empire between the sons of Sultan Bayezid I following their father's defeat and capture by Timur in the Battle of Ankara on 20 July 1402.