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The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 (Turkish: 1897 Osmanlı-Yunan Savaşı or 1897 Türk-Yunan Savaşı), also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97 (Greek: Μαύρο '97, Mauro '97) or the Unfortunate War (Greek: Ατυχής πόλεμος, romanized: Atychis polemos), was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century until the successful Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 and the First Hellenic Republic was proclaimed in 1822, is known in Greece as Turkocracy (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, Tourkokratia, "Turkish ...
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 ...
Imereti restores hegemony over western Georgia; 1703 Ottoman invasion of western Georgia: Ottoman Empire: Kingdom of Imereti Principality of Guria Principality of Mingrelia: Victory 1722-1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) Russian Empire Ukrainian Cossacks Kingdom of Kartli: Safavid Iran: Victory Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1723) 1730-1735
Russo-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire Russia: Defeat. In recognition of the Treaty of London, the independence of Greece, or autonomy under Ottoman suzerainty, was accepted. The Ottoman Empire had nominal suzerainty over the Danube states of Moldavia and Wallachia; for all practical purposes, they; were independent.
First Ottoman–Venetian War: 1463 1479 Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War: 1570 1573 Battle of Lepanto: 1571 Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War / Cretan War: 1645 1669 Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War / Morean War: 1684 1699 Siege of Rhodes * 1522 1522 Revolts at Vonitsa and Epirus 1585 1585 Himara Revolt: 1596 1596 Thessaly Revolt: 1600 1600
Ottoman invasion of western Georgia: 1703 Conquest of Batumi, Poti, and Anaklia: Conquest of Oran, the final Spanish stronghold in Algeria 1708 Reconquest of Moldavia and Azov from the Russians 1711 Start of the Eighth Ottoman-Venetian War with the reconquest of Morea: 1715 Conquest of Souda in Crete and the island of Tinos in the Cyclades 1715
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.