Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War

1361

Ottomans capture Adrianople and rename it Edirne

1361

Murad I took the second city of the Byzantine Balkans and made it his European capital, shifting the Ottoman center of gravity across the straits. Edirne's minarets rose where Roman columns had stood. Constantinople was now encircled, a Christian island in an Ottoman sea, its fall a matter of when, not if.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1360: Hafiz born in Shiraz
After: October 1365: Crusader sack of Alexandria

Before and after in War

Before: 1359: Timur-i Lenk's first major campaign in Khwarezm
After: September 1363: Battle of Lake Poyang

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Capture of Adrianople