Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1357
Ottoman capture of Gallipoli opens Europe
1357
An earthquake shattered the walls of the Byzantine fortress on the Dardanelles, and Ottoman forces under Süleyman Pasha simply walked in. Gallipoli became the first permanent Ottoman foothold on European soil. The narrow strait that had separated Asia from Europe for millennia was now a bridge for Turkish armies heading west.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.