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This is a List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire ordered chronologically, including civil wars within the empire. The earliest form of the Ottoman military was a nomadic steppe cavalry force. [ 1 ]
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.
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 second Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) The third Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) The fourth Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) The fifth Ottoman–Venetian War or Cretan War (1645–1669) The sixth Ottoman–Venetian War or Morean War (1684–1699) The seventh and last Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)
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 ...
The Ottoman Empire lost direct control of Egypt and the lands to the south during the revolt of Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha in the 1830s. Although Egypt was still considered an Ottoman vassal, the Ottoman Empire totally lost control in the 1880s to the British Empire. By the 19th century, Ottoman control of the countries west of Egypt was also ...
This includes Polish or Ottoman intervention in wars such as the Hungarian–Ottoman War (1437–1442) or the Battle of Verbia. Note that this list doesn't only contain wars, but armed conflicts as a whole. Therefore, single battles or raids are allowed to be on here. Polish or Polish–Lithuanian victory Ottoman victory
Battles of the Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699) (9 P) G. Battles of the Greek War of Independence (2 C, 29 P) H. ... List of Ottoman battles in which the sultan ...