List of cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire

The list of major cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire is shown below. Since it is impossible to include all cities, only the most populous cities, capitals and the cities with strategical or historical importance are shown.

Cities

Main article: Ottoman Empire

In the following list, the first column shows the year of the conquest.^{[dn 1]} Some of the cities (like Tabriz, Erivan or Belgrad) had been conquered more than once. In this case, only the first conquest has been shown. The second column shows the name of the city (where necessary, the Ottoman Turkish name and/or the contemporary Turkish name has also been given in parathesis), the third column shows the holder before conquest and the fourth column shows the present country. In the fifth column links to the article in this encyclopedia for the details of the conquest (where applicable).^[1][2][3]

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Year	Name	Holder before the Conquest	Present country	Battle/Siege	Statute
1326	Prusa (Bursa)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey	Siege of Bursa
1331	Nicaea (İznik)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey	Siege of Nicaea
1338	Nicomedia (İzmit)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey
1352	Callipolis (Gelibolu)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey
1356	Ankara	Ahis of Ankara (Ankara ahileri)	Turkey
1361	Adrianopol (Edirne)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey
1364	Plovdiv (Filibe)	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1365	Niš	Serbian Empire	Serbia
1382	Sofia	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria	Siege of Sofia
1382	Bitola (Monastir, Manastır)	Bulgarian Empire	Macedonia
1388	Ruse (Rusçuk)	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1389	Varna	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1392	Skopje (Üsküp)	Bulgarian Empire	Macedonia
1393	Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova)	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria	Siege of Tarnovo
1395	Nikopol (Niğbolu)	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1396	Silistra (Silistre)	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1396	Vidin	Bulgarian Empire	Bulgaria
1419	Constanța (Köstence)	Bulgarian Empire	Romania
1426	Smyrna (İzmir)	Aydinids	Turkey
1430	Thessaloniki (Selânik)	Republic of Venice	Greece	Siege of Thessalonica
1431[citation needed]	Ioannina (Yânya)	Despotate of Epirus	Greece
1453	Constantinople (Konstantiniye, Istanbul)	Byzantine Empire	Turkey	Fall of Constantinople
1458	Athens (Atina)	Duchy of Athens	Greece
1459[citation needed]	Pristina (Priştine)	Serbian Despotate	Kosovo[dn 2]
1461	Trebizond (Trabzon)	Empire of Trebizond	Turkey
1461	Sarajevo (Saray-ı Bosna, Saraybosna) [dn 3]	Bosnian Kingdom	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1461	Jajce (Royal Seat of the Bosnian King)[dn 4]	Bosnian Kingdom	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1462	Bucharest		Romania		Vassal
1466	Iconium (Konya)		Turkey
1468	Mostar		Bosnia and Herzegovina
1470	Chalcis (Euboea-Eğriboz island)		Greece
1474	Podgorica (Podgoriçe)		Montenegro
1475	Bakhchisaray (Bahçesaray)		Ukraine		Vassal
1475	Feodosiya (Kefe)		Ukraine
1475	Sudak		Ukraine
1475	Azov (Azak)		Russia
1478	Krujë (Akçahisar)		Albania	Fourth Siege of Krujë
1479	Shkodër (İşkodra)		Albania
1480	Otranto		Italy	Invasion of Otranto
1484	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Akkerman)		Ukraine
1514	Arz-i Rûm (Erzurum)		Turkey
1514	Tabriz (Tebriz)		Iran
1514	Ardabil (Erdebil)		Iran
1515	Van		Turkey
1515	Kara Amid (Diyâr-i Bekr, Diyarbakır)		Turkey
1515	Urmiah (Ürmiye)		Iran
1516	Antiochia (Antakya)		Turkey
1516	Aleppo (Halep)		Syria
1516	Damascus (Trablus-i Şâm, Şam)		Syria
1516	Beirut		Lebanon
1516	Amman		Jordan
1516	Jerusalem (Kudüs)		Israel
1516	Jaffa (Yafa)		Israel
1517	Cairo (Kâhire)		Egypt
1517	Damietta (Dumyat)		Egypt
1517	Mecca (Mekke)		Saudi Arabia
1517	Jeddah (Cidde)		Saudi Arabia
1521	Beograd (Belgrad)		Serbia
1522	Rhodes (Rodos)		Greece
1526	Tvrđa		Croatia
1529	Algiers (Cezayir)		Algeria	Capture of Algiers
1529	Odessa (Hacibey)		Ukraine
1534	Tunis (Tunus)		Tunisia	Conquest of Tunis
1534	Baghdad (Bağdat)		Iraq	Capture of Baghdad
1537	Klis (Clissa, Kilis)		Croatia	Siege of Klis
1538	Basra		Iraq
1538	Aden		Yemen	Capture of Aden
1538	San'a		Yemen
1538	Bender		Moldova
1538	Chişinău (Knişev)		Moldova
1539	Herceg Novi (Yeni Hersek)		Montenegro	Siege of Castelnuovo
1541	Buda		Hungary	Siege of Buda
1543	Esztergom (Estergon)		Hungary	Siege of Esztergom
1547	Van		Turkey	Siege of Van
1551	Tripoli (Trablus-i Gârb, Trablusgarp)		Libya	Siege of Tripoli
1552	Muscat		Oman
1552	Touggourt		Algeria	Salih Reis
1552	Timişoara		Romania
1555	Béjaïa		Algeria	Capture of Bougie
1557	Massawa		Eritrea
1566	Szigetvár (Zigetvar)		Hungary	Siege of Szigetvár
1567	Zabid		Yemen
1571	Nicosia (Lefkoşa)		Cyprus
1576	Fes		Morocco
1578	Akhaltsikhe (Ahıska)		Georgia
1578	Erivan (Yerevan)		Armenia
1578	Benghazi		Libya
1578	Tiblisi (Tiflis)		Georgia
1578	Ganja (Gence)		Azerbaycan
1578	Baku (Bakü)		Azerbaycan
1584	Lori		Armenia
1587	Hamadan (Hamedan)		Iran
1590	Derbent		Russia (Dagestan)
1594	Györ (Yanık)		Hungary
1596	Eger		Hungary
1600	Nagykanizsa (Kanije)		Hungary	Siege of Kanije
1645	Chania (Hanya)		Greece
1663	Nové Zámky (Uyvar)		Slovakia
1669	Heraklion (Kandiye)		Greece	Siege of Candia
1672	Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamaniçe)		Ukraine
1678	Chyhyryn (Çehrin)		Ukraine
1713	Khotyn (Hotin)		Ukraine	(*)
1852	Doha		Qatar		Vassal
1869	Manama		Bahrain		Vassal

See also

• List of Ottoman Empire territories
• Battles involving the Ottoman Empire
• List of Ottoman sieges and landings

Footnotes

1. ^ Not all cities were conquered by military force. Some were included within Ottoman realm voluntarily.
2. ^ Disputed territory
3. ^ Founded by Ottomans
4. ^ Fall of the Kigdom of Bosnia

References

1. ^ Faik Reşit Unat: Tarih Atlası, Kanaat yayınları, İstanbul, 1991, p.29 (Turkish)
2. ^ Prof. Dr. Yaşar Yücel-Prof. Dr. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi, AAKTDYK yayınları, İstanbul, 1991,^{[page needed]} (Turkish)
3. ^ Lord Kinross :Osmanlı İmparatorluğun Yükselişi ve Çöküşü (The Ottoman centuries, Trans.Meral Gaspıralı) Altın Kitaplar, İstanbul, 2008, ISBN 978-975-21-0955-1,^{[page needed]} (Turkish)