Conquests of Orhan
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Expansion during the rule of Orhan in the Ottoman Beylik.
Chronology
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January 1332: In 1331 Ottoman Bey Orhan conquered Nicaea after three years of siege.
January 1327: In 1326, shortly before succeeding his father, only diplomatic negotiations conquered Bursa, which would become the Ottoman capital for twenty years.
January 1338: The Turks were in a position to lay siege to the great Byzantine cities of Bithynia: Nicomedia.
January 1339: In 1338, when Üsküdar was captured, most of northwestern Anatolia was in Ottoman hands.
January 1351: In 1350, the territory of Yoros was taken over by the Ottoman Beylik from the Genoan rulers who had controlled it from 1300 to 1350. Yoros was a strategic location on the Bosphorus Strait, and its capture played a significant role in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
January 1353: In 1352 , Süleyman Paşa initiated the Turkish penetration into Europe, by conquering a fortress at Tzympe, near Gallipoli, in Thrace.
April 1354: In March 1354 , Ottoman commander Süleyman Paşa occupied and rebuilt Gallipoli (evacuated by its Greek population in the wake of an earthquake that destroyed it).
April 1354: Süleyman Paşa was a prominent Ottoman military leader who captured and restored Gallipoli in 1354. The city had been abandoned by its Greek inhabitants due to an earthquake. This event marked the expansion of the Ottoman Beylik's territory.
January 1355: In 1354, Ankara was briefly annexed by Orhan of Ottoman Beylik.
January 1360: Orhan I and Süleyman Paşa consolidated the Turkish base of Gallipoli.
January 1361: Lala Şahin Paşa prepared to advance from Gallipoli (the base that Süleyman Paşa had left on the European continent), on the Byzantine territory of Thrace , taking in 131360 , after years of siege, Demotika.
January 1362: The Beylik of the Karasids was taken over by its neighbors, the Ottomans, in 1361.
