What the records say
- When
- 27 Jul 1302
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 40.50° N, 31.00° E
- Description
- 1302 Ottoman-Byzantine military engagement
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Bapheus
1302 battle of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars
The Battle of Bapheus occurred on 27 July 1299, between an Ottoman Turkish army under Osman I and a Byzantine army under Georgios Mouzalon. The battle ended in a crucial Ottoman victory, cementing the Ottoman state and heralding the final capture of Byzantine Bithynia by the Ottoman Turks.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Bapheus: To counter the Turkish threat at Nicomedia, Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos sends a Byzantine force (some 2,000 men) to cross over the…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Osman Gazi, Koyunhisar Savaşı'nı kazandı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Bapheus besiegen die Osmanen unter Osman I. die Byzantinische Armee unter Georgos Mouzalon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “победа Османа Гази над византийскими войсками в Бафейской битве”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “انتصار العثمانيين بمعركة بافيوس (1302م) تحت قيادة عثمان الأول ضد الجيش البيزنطي، وتعد أول معارك الدولة العثمانية”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page