Ottoman conquest of Adrianople

Ottoman conquest of Adrianople
	Part of the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
Date	c. 1362 or 1369
Location	Adrianople (modern Edirne)41°40′37″N 26°33′20″E
Result	Ottoman victory Adrianople becomes the New Capital of the Ottoman Empire;
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Lala Shahin Pasha

Adrianople (Edirne), a major Byzantine city in Thrace, was conquered by the Ottomans sometime in the 1360s, and eventually became the Ottoman capital, until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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