Fall of Gallipoli

Fall of Gallipoli
Part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars and Ottoman wars in Europe

The Byzantine and Ottoman Empires within a year of the occupation of Gallipoli
DateMarch 1354
Location
Result
  • Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Byzantine Empire John VI Kantakouzenos Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan)
Strength
Unknown 10,000–20,000
exmercenaries[1]

The fall of Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu'nun Fethi, lit.'Conquest of Gelibolu') 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. Access to the Aegean and Marmara seas meant that the Ottomans could now implement the conquest of the southern Balkans, and could advance further north into the Serbian Empire and Hungary.

  1. ^ Heath, Ian (1995). Byzantine Armies AD 1118–1461. Bloomsbury USA. p. 35. ISBN 9781855323476.