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Conquest of the strategic port of Samsun in the Black Sea 1417 Third Ottoman siege of Constantinople: 1422 Reconquest of Albania, conquests of several coastal settlements in Morea 1423 Ottoman-Venetian War 1423–1430 Conquest of the strategic port of Sinop (Sinope) in the Black Sea 1424 Conquest of Smyrna from the Anatolian Beylik of that city ...
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 Empire invaded Syria, but after suffering a defeat at the Battle of Nezib appeared on the verge of collapse. On 1 July, the Ottoman fleet sailed to Alexandria and surrendered to Muhammad Ali. Britain, Austria and other European nations, rushed to intervene and force Egypt into accepting a peace treaty.
The Ottoman conquest and territorial reorganisation of Albania though affected the Catholic church as ecclesiastical structures were decimated. [23] In the 16th century, the sanjak of Shkodër was reported as having a Muslim population standing at 4.5% of the total, while Dukagjini (sparsely populated at the time) had 0% and Prizreni had 1.9%. [14]
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 ...
The principality was now faced with the ever-increasing Ottoman threat; in 1386, Balsha's widow offered to cede Valona to Venice in exchange for aid, but the Republic refused, since Valona alone without her hinterland was indefensible. Following the decisive Ottoman victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the situation became yet more ...
Object of the siege: an ancient Albanian citadel on the Buna River. The siege of Shkodra (Albanian: Rrethimi i Shkodrës) took place from May 1478 to April 1479 as a confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetians together with the League of Lezhe and other Albanians [9] [10] [11] at Shkodra (Scutari in Italian) and its Rozafa Castle during the First Ottoman-Venetian War (1463–1479).
It was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in successive waves, in 1386/7, the mid-1390s, and again after 1414/23, and the conquest was not completed until 1470. [1] Trikala itself fell probably in 1395/6 (although Evliya Çelebi claims it happened as early as 1390).