Fall of Gallipoli

When

Mar 1354

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

40.41° N, 26.67° E

Description

1354 middle ages battle

14th century battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire

The fall of Gallipoli was the siege and capture of the Gallipoli fortress and peninsula, by the Ottoman Turks, in March 1354. After suffering a half-century of defeats at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantine Empire had lost nearly all of its possessions in Anatolia, except Philadelphia.

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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 “Within a month after the devastating earthquake the Ottomans besieged and captured the town of Gallipoli”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Osmanlı Devleti, Gelibolu'yu fethetti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Osmanische Reich, bislang Verbündeter der Kantakuzenos im Bürgerkrieg, unternimmt eigenständige Eroberungen im durch den Krieg geschwächten Reich”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “захват Каллиполя”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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