Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1326
Ottomans capture Bursa from Byzantium
April 1326
After a six-year blockade Osman's son Orhan finally took the prosperous city below Mount Olympus and made it the first proper Ottoman capital. Bursa's silk markets bankrolled further conquests; its green-tiled tombs would receive every early Ottoman sultan. The Byzantine line in Bithynia had effectively ceased to exist, and Anatolia was lost to Constantinople forever.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.