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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 ...
Egyptian–Ottoman War: Ottoman Empire: Egypt Eyalet: Defeat. Egypt gained the Aleppo Vilayet and the Syria Vilayet. Convention of Kütahya; Egypt becomes an autonomous vassal of the Ottoman Empire; Unresolved tensions result in a second war six years later; 1832-1848 Ottoman–Ethiopian border conflicts: Ottoman Empire. Egypt Ethiopian Empire ...
First Balkan War: The Ottoman Empire is nearly wiped out from Europe, save for Istanbul and just enough land around to defend it. 1914: August 2: The Empire enters into World War I on the side of the Central Powers. Cyprus is annexed outright by Britain. 1915: April 24: The Ottoman Empire initiates forced deportation of Armenians. 1915: April 25
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.
With the fall of Trebizond came the end of the Roman Empire; the Palaiologoi continued to be recognized as the rightful emperors of Constantinople by the crowned heads of Europe until the 16th century when the Reformation, the Ottoman threat to Europe and decreased interest in crusading forced European powers to recognize the Ottoman Empire as ...
1558–1583 Livonian War; 1559–1564 Spanish-Ottoman War – 24,000 killed in action [1] 1560 Siege of Leith; 1562–1598 French Wars of Religion; 1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War; 1565 Great Siege of Malta; 1566 Siege of Szigetvár; 1568–1570 Morisco Revolt; 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War; 1569–1580 Spanish-Ottoman War – 48,000 ...
Final stage of the Siege of Candia, ends with capture of city. End of the Cretan war. 1666–1669 Sieges of Chyhyryn in Ukraine: 1677-1678 Conquest of the castles controlling the Black Sea entrance of the Dnieper River 1679 Reconquest of Chios during the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War (1684–1699) 1695
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Ottoman Empire: . Ottoman Empire – historical Muslim empire that lasted from c. 1299 to 1922. It was also known by its European contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey after the principal ethnic group. [1]