Wars of Mehmed II
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Wars during the rule of Mehmed II in the Ottoman Sultanate.
Chronology
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November 1444: Ottomans secured tthe Despotate of Dobruja after the Battle of Varna.
January 1480: In 1479 the Principality of Zeta fell under Turkish rule.
June 1459: Sultan Mehmed II decided to conquer Serbia completely and arrived at Smederevo. The new ruler did not even try to defend the city. After negotiations, Bosnians were allowed to leave the city and Serbia was officially conquered by Turks on June 20, 1459.
January 1461: In 1460, the Beylik of Canik was annexed by the Ottoman Empire.
July 1454: Without formally declaring an end to the peace treaty, Sultan Mehmed II invaded Serbia in mid-July 1454. Much of central Serbia fell.
June 1455: Novo Brdo, a strategic mining town in the Balkans, was besieged by the Ottoman Empire in 1455. The town fell after being bombarded with heavy cannons, leading to its territory being taken over by the Ottomans.
October 1455: The rest of southern Serbia was occupied by the Ottomans.
January 1456: The Venetian Bozcaada Island (Tenedo) was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
January 1457: In 1456, after the Fall of Constantinople (1453) to the Ottoman Empire, Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey conquered the remnants of the Duchy of Athens.
January 1457: Samothrace conquered by Ottoman Empire.
January 1457: Ainos conquered by Ottoman Empire.
January 1459: Ragusa conquered by the Ottomans.
April 1459: By the start of the reign of Stephen Tomašević Serbia was reduced to only a strip of land along the Danube.
May 1460: After more years of incompetent rule by the despots, their failure to pay their annual tribute to the Sultan, and finally their own revolt against Ottoman rule, Mehmed came into the Morea in May 1460. Demetrios ended up a prisoner of the Ottomans and his younger brother Thomas fled. By the end of the summer the Ottomans had achieved the submission of virtually all cities possessed by the Greeks.
January 1461: Amasra, the most important fortress of the Genoese on the Black Sea coast, was besieged and captured.
January 1461: The Ottoman empire occupied the region of Angelokastron.
January 1461: Venetian Spetses (Velvina or Spezia) is conquered by the Ottomans.
August 1461: After the emperor of the Empire of Trebizond refused to pay tribute and made an alliance with the Akkoyunlu Mehmed led a campaign against Trebizond by land and sea. After a siege of more than 32 days, Trebizond and the emperor surrendered and the Empire came to an end.
January 1462: The Beylik of Jandar was annexed by the Ottoman Empire.
January 1463: Vlad the Impaler who with Ottoman help had become the Ottoman vassal ruler of Wallachia, refused to pay tribute after some years and invaded Ottoman territory in northern Bulgaria. At that point Mehmed, with the main Ottoman army, was on the Trebizond campaign in Asia. When Mehmed returned from his Trebizond campaign he led a campaign against Wallachia. Vlad fled after some resistance to Hungary. Mehmed first made Wallachia an Ottoman eyalet.
January 1463: In 1462, Gökçeada Island (Imbro) was taken over by the Ottoman Empire.
January 1469: After the death of Skanderbeg, the renowned Albanian military leader, in 1468, the Ottoman Empire was able to easily conquer and subdue the entire territory of Albania, with the exception of the region of Kruje and Venetian Albania.
June 1475: In May 1475, the Ottoman commander Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquered Caffa.
July 1475: Soldaia or Sugdeia (today's Sudak) - 1266/87-1322, 1358/65-1475 in the intermediate period she was Venetian.
January 1476: Genoese domination over Anapa lasted until the arrival of an Ottoman fleet in 1475.
January 1476: In 1475, the Genoese colony of Vosporo (modern-day Kerč, Crimea) was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
January 1476: The Genoese outpost of Cembalo, now Balaklava, part of the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, was conquered by the Turks.
January 1479: In 1478 the Crimean Khanate recognized Ottoman suzerainty.
January 1480: Cephalonia and Ithaca, originally part of the Palatine county and the Orsini-ruled Despotate of Epirus, came under Ottoman rule in 1479.
January 1480: Duke Leonardo III Tocco was expelled by the Ottomans in 1479 along with his brothers Antonio and Giovanni Tocco.
February 1480: The forces of Samtskhe-Saatabago leave Erzurum after a raid.
September 1462: The island of Lesbos was captured following a siege of its capital, Mytilene, and annexed.
June 1463: Mehmed led a campaign against the Kingdom of Bosnia and annexed it to the Ottoman Empire.
January 1457: Thasos was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1456.
January 1463: The Ottomans appointed Vlad's brother Radu as a vassal ruler of Wallachia.
November 1475: At the end of the year, after a five-month siege, Doros, the capital of the Theodoro principality, also fell into Ottoman hands.
January 1480: The Ottoman Empire captured Shkodra.
Was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 after a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April. The conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire marked the effective end of the last remains of the Roman Empire.
May 1453: Mehmed II "the Conqueror" captured the Byzantine capital Constantinople in 1453. This marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. Sultan Mehmed II made Constantinople his capital, renaming it Istanbul
May 1453: The Ottoman Sultanate is considered an Empire after the conquest of Constantinople.
July 1453: On May 29, 1453, after a siege of almost two months, the imperial capital fell to Mehmed II. The last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI. died during the fighting for the city.
November 1453: After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Northern Sporades (Skiathos, Skopelos, and Alonissos) became part of the Republic of Venice.
January 1454: After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Byzantine forces in Imbros left the island.
May 1453: In 1453, during the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, the Genoese territory of Galata was taken over by the Ottoman Sultanate under the leadership of Mehmed the Conqueror.
January 1454: After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, the Greek islands of Skyros, Skiathos and Skopolos granted themselves to Venice.
After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror rallied his resources to subjugate the Kingdom of Hungary. His immediate objective was the border fort of the town of Belgrade (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár).
July 1456: Siege of Belgrade.
Was a war between the Republic of Venice and the ottoman Empire. Several Venetian territories were captured and annexed by the Ottomans.
3.1.Treaty of Constantinople (1479)
Was a treaty between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
Was a an Ottoman military campaign by Ballaban Badera, sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Ohrid against the Albanian League of Lezhë.
October 1465: After being defeated by Skanderbeg in Vaikal and Kashari, the Turkish army left Albania.
September 1465: Battle of Vaikal: the Turkish strategy was to implement a pincer movement with the goal of entering in central Albania in full force, storming what was supposed to be a hesitant Albanian defense. Skanderbeg, however, defeated both armies.
September 1465: Battle of Kashari: the Turkish strategy was to implement a pincer movement with the goal of entering in central Albania in full force, storming what was supposed to be a hesitant Albanian defense. Skanderbeg, however, defeated both armies.
Selected Sources
Osswald, B. (2011): L'Epire du treizième au quinzième siècle: autonomie et hétérogénéité d'une région balkanique, Toulouse (France), p. 288
Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, p.148
