Conquests of Murad I
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Expansion during the rule of Murad I in the Ottoman Beylik.
Chronology
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January 1382: After Eretna's death, his lands were nibbled away by the Ottomans in the west and the Aq Qoyunlu in the east due to internal disputes between the Eretnids.
January 1363: Reorganized the leadership of the Ottoman forces in Europe, under the leadership of Lala Şahin Paşa, Murad I led the final Ottoman campaign in Thrace. This conquest was crowned in 1362 with the capture of Adrianople , which from then on was renamed Edirne.
January 1365: Philippopolis and Thrace conquered by Ottoman Beylik.
January 1369: In 1368, Ottoman Bey Murad I personally led a campaign along the Black Sea coast, which was completed with the capture of Burgaz.
January 1374: Murad completed his triumph on the banks of the Maritza by launching a well-organized campaign to extend his rule over the remaining Balkan territories, south of the Danube. The left wing of the Ottoman expansion under Evrenos Bey crossed the Rhodope Mountains and seized almost all of Macedonia, a conquest that culminated in the capture of Serres in 1373 .
January 1374: In 1373, two years after the devastating Battle of Maritsa, the Principality of Velbazhd became a vassal to the Ottoman Empire.
January 1382: Ottoman prince Bayezid married Devlet Şah Hâtûn , daughter of Germiyan bey Süleyman Şah. The gifts that Germiyan bestowed on the bride were Kütahya, Simav, Tavşanlı and Emet which were given to the Ottomans.
January 1382: In Bursa, Murad received the ambassador of Hamid's Bey Kemaleddin Hüseyin. A treaty of offensive-defensive alliance was signed between the Ottomans and Hamid, through this treaty Murad bought from Hamid the territories of Akşehir, Yalvaç, Beyşehir, Seydişehir, Karaağaç, Eğirdir and Isparta.
January 1382: In 1377, the Venetians controlled Bozcaada Island (Tenedo) was taken over by the Ottoman Beylik.
January 1386: An Ottoman offensive, under the command of General Kara Timurtash Bey (a Turkmen from Anatolia), advanced, up the Tundzha River, into the heart of Bulgaria and occupied Sofia and Niš.
January 1374: Unable to defend his country from the Ottomans, in 1373 the Bulgarian emperor Ivan Shishman agreed to become an Ottoman vassal.
January 1384: In 1383, in recognition of the campaign against the Balkan Christians, the Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo appointed Bey Murad as sultan.
Was a battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Serbian Empire that lead to the loss of southern Serbia to the Ottomans.
As a result of the campaign the Turks took most of eastern Bulgaria including several key towns. Now the authority of Ivan Shishman was reduced to the lands to the west of the capital Tarnovo and several castles along the Danube. To the east the Bulgarians kept Varna and the capital of the Principality of Karvuna, Kaliakra.
