Fall of Gallipoli

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Fall of Gallipoli
Part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars
Date 1354
Location Asia Minor
Result Ottoman victory
Combatants
Byzantine Empire Ottoman Turks
Commanders
Unknown Suleyman Pasha
Byzantine-Ottoman wars
Bapheus - Brusa - Pelekanon - Nicaea - Nicomedia - Gallipoli - Adrianople - Constantinople

Gallipoli fell to the Ottomans in 1354. After suffering a string of defeats at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantines had lost all possessions in Anatolia. Access to the Aegean meant that the Ottomans could now implement the conquest of the Peloponnese, Greece and further north into Serbia and Hungary.