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Ottoman–Zand War: Ottoman Empire: Zand Iran: Defeat. Basra captured by the Zands [147] [148] [149] Change of territories for the benefit of the Safavids for 4 years and restoration of the previous borders after the peace. 1787–1791 Austro-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Habsburg monarchy: Inconclusive. Orșova and Croatian borderlands ceded to ...
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.
This action provoked the Ottoman Empire into the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), during which, in January 1769, a 70-thousand Turkish-Tatar army led by the Crimean Khan Qırım Giray made one of the largest slave raids in the history, which was repulsed by the 6-thousand garrison of the Fortress of St. Elizabeth, which prevented Ottoman Empire ...
Ottoman Empire War of 1532–1555: Suleiman I: Tahmasp I: Treaty of Amasya (1555) Ottoman Empire [1] War of 1578–1590: Murad III: Mohammad Khodabanda, Abbas I: Treaty of Constantinople (1590) Ottoman Empire War of 1603–1612: Ahmed I: Abbas I: Treaty of Nasuh Pasha: Persian Empire War of 1616–1618: Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II: Abbas I ...
Conquest of Üsküdar (formerly Scutari or Chrysopolis) and Kadıköy (formerly Chalcedon) on the Anatolian side of İstanbul, the Marmara Island, Thrace and Gallipoli, Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357, Conquest of Byzantine Empire, Serbian Empire, Second Bulgarian Empire (Battle of Demotika)
Ottoman Civil War (1509–1513) Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ottoman Empire casualties of war; Ottoman expeditions to Morocco; Ottoman invasion of Persia (1906) Ottoman wars in Africa; Ottoman wars in Asia; Ottoman wars in Europe; Ottoman-Ethiopian war (1557-1589) Ottoman–Hotaki War (1726–1727) Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
The Ottoman Empire was one of the Central Powers of World War I, allied with the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria.It entered the war on 29 October 1914 with a small surprise attack on the Black Sea coast of Russia, which prompted Russia to declare war on 2 November 1914.