Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1354
Ottomans cross the Dardanelles at Gallipoli
March 1354
An earthquake collapsed the walls of Gallipoli during a winter storm. Suleyman, son of Orhan, slipped his men across the strait under cover of the chaos and refused to leave, fortifying the ruined walls before Byzantine relief could arrive. The Ottomans now had a permanent European foothold. Within a generation they would push north to Plovdiv and Adrianople.
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