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Fall of Gallipoli

1354 CE · Turkey, Asia · War

Fall of Gallipoli
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The fall of Gallipoli was the siege and capture of the Gallipoli fortress and peninsula, by the Ottoman Turks, in March 1354. After suffering a half-century of defeats at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantine Empire had lost nearly all of its possessions in Anatolia, except Philadelphia.

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