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Conquest of the Genoese islands in the northern Aegean Sea, including Lesbos 1462 Conquest of Kingdom of Bosnia and the castle of Riniassa and its dependent region of Preveza [3] 1463 Ottoman-Venetian War: 1463–1479 Conquest of castles and forts in Albania and failed sieges of Krujë (see Siege of Krujë (1466) and Siege of Krujë (1467)) 1466
Ottoman conquest of the Morea Zaganos or Zagan Pasha ( Ottoman Turkish : زاغنوس پاشا , Turkish : Zağanos Paşa , Albanian : Zognush Pasha ; c. 1426 – 1469) was an Albanian Ottoman military commander , with the titles and ranks of kapudan pasha and the highest military rank, grand vizier , during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II "the ...
Ottoman Albania was a period in Albanian history from the Ottoman conquest in the late 15th century to the Albanian declaration of Independence and official secession from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. The Ottomans first entered Albania in 1385 upon the invitation of the Albanian noble Karl Thopia to suppress the forces of the noble Balša II ...
The Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a process that started roughly in 1386, when the first Ottoman attacks on the Kingdom of Bosnia took place. In 1451, more than 65 years after its initial attacks, the Ottoman Empire officially established the Bosansko Krajište (Bosnian Frontier), an interim borderland military administrative unit, an Ottoman frontier, in parts of Bosnia and ...
Ottoman rule also changed the ethnic and religious makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many Catholic Bosnians retreated to Croatia, which was controlled by Habsburg Austria after the Ottoman conquest of most of the Kingdom of Hungary, and to Dalmatia, which was controlled by the Republic of Venice after the fall of Hungary.
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 resolved to launch a powerful offensive which defeated the rebels. [114] In 1739, Kurvelesh, Margëlliç and Ajdonat also decided to stop paying taxes and rose in arms. The Ottomans crushed the uprising with troops sent from Delvine. [115] In 1746, an uprising erupted in Berat and Mallakaster against taxation. Once again, the ...
The Ottoman invasion of Albania in 1452 (Albanian: Fushata shqiptare e Mehmetit II) was a campaign by the newly acceded Ottoman sultan Mehmed II against Skanderbeg, the chief of the League of Lezhë. Shortly after the first siege of Krujë, Murad II died in Edirne, and was succeeded by his son Mehmed II. Mehmed ordered nearly annual invasions ...