Fall of Gallipoli

Fall of Gallipoli
	Part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars
	; The Byzantine and Ottoman Empires within a year of the occupation of Gallipoli
Date	March 1354
Location	Gallipoli peninsula
Result	Ottoman victory Ottoman takeover of Gallipoli; John VI Kantakouzenos overthrown as Eastern Roman Emperor; Savoyard crusade; Europe becomes open to Turkish expansion;
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
None	Suleyman Pasha
Strength
	10,000–20,000; ex-mercenaries

The fall of Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu'nun Fethi, lit. 'Conquest of Gelibolu') 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. Access to the Aegean and Marmara seas meant that the Ottomans could now implement the conquest of the southern Balkans, and could advance further north into the Serbian Empire and Hungary.

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