Bulgarian-Ottoman Wars
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Were a series of wars between the Ottomans and the Bulgarians that resulted in the Ottoman conquest of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
Chronology
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January 1387: After bitter fighting, in 1386 the Turks seized Pirot and Naissus.
January 1387: In 1386, the Ottoman Sultan Murad I himself led much larger forces that took Niš from Lazar.
Was a battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Serbian Empire that lead to the loss of southern Serbia to the Ottomans.
November 1371: In 1371, the Ottoman Beylik, led by Murad I, captured Bitola in the southwest after a bloody siege.
January 1374: In 1373 Ivan Shishman, the ruler of Moravian Serbia, was forced to negotiate a humiliating peace treaty: he became an Ottoman vassal strengthening the union with a marriage between Murad and Shishman's sister Kera Tamara. To compensate, the Ottomans returned some of the conquered lands, including Ihtiman and Samokov.
October 1371: In 1371, the Ottoman Beylik captured the territory of Sozopol, a historic town on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.
November 1371: The Ottomans succeeded capturing the cities of Drama, Kavála, and Serrai in modern Greece.
November 1371: Immediately after the battle of Chernomen, the armies of Murad I embarked on another campaign overrunning Northern Thrace and forcing Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria to pull back north of the Balkan Mountains.
November 1371: In 1371, during the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, one of Ivan Shishman's voivodes, Shishkin, was killed in battle in the Rhodopes region. This event further facilitated the Ottoman Beylik's control over Kostenets, Ihtiman, and Samokov.
November 1371: The Ottomasn conquered the whole bulgarian state with the exception of lands to the north of the Balkan mountains and the Valley of Sofia.
January 1374: Between 1371 and 1373 the Ottomans emerged as a considerable power on the Balkans. They ruled over the entire Thrace and had seized the lands of Uglesha in Eastern Macedonia.
Was an Ottoman military campaign in Bulgaria led by Murad I.
January 1389: In Tutrakan the citizens allowed the Turks to install a small garrison but then they killed the Turkish soldiers and prepared for siege. Ali Pasha immediately burned the surrounding fields and soon the starving town had to surrender.
January 1389: The Bulgarians saved Nikopol but were forced to cede another key Danubian fortress, Dorostolon.
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.
January 1389: 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.
