Ottoman conquest of Adrianople
1360s capture of the Byzantine city of Adrianople by the Ottoman Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other engagements, see Battle of Adrianople (disambiguation).
Adrianople (Edirne), a major Byzantine city in Thrace, was conquered by the Ottomans sometime in the 1360s, and eventually became the Ottoman capital, until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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Ottoman conquest of Adrianople | |||||||
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Part of the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars | |||||||
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Byzantine Empire | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
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Unknown | Lala Shahin Pasha |
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