List of cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire

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{{Military of the Ottoman Empire sidebar}}The list of major cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire is 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

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This following list, the first column shows the year of the conquest.Not all cities were conquered by military force. Some were included within Ottoman realm voluntarily. Some of the cities (like Tabriz, Yerevan 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).Faik Reşit Unat: Tarih Atlası, Kanaat yayınları, İstanbul, 1991, p.29 {{in lang|tr}}Prof. Dr. Yaşar Yücel-Prof. Dr. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi, AAKTDYK yayınları, İstanbul, 1991, {{Page needed|date=June 2011}} {{in lang|tr}}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|date=June 2011}} {{in lang|tr}}

{{Incomplete list|date=February 2011}}

class="sortable wikitable"

!Year

!Name

!Holder before the Conquest

!Present country

!Battle/Siege

!Statute

1326

|Prusa (Bursa)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|Siege of Bursa

|

1331

|Nicaea (İznik)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|Siege of Nicaea

|

1338

|Nicomedia (İzmit)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|

|

1352

|Callipolis (Gelibolu)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|

|

1356

|Ahis (Ankara ahileri)

|Turkey

|

|

1361

|Adrianopol (Edirne)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|

|

1364

|Plovdiv (Filibe)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Capture of Plovdid

|

1364

|Stara Zagora (Eski Zagra)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Capture of Stara Zagora

|

1365

|20px Serbian Empire

|

|

1382

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Bulgaria

|Siege of Sofia

|

1388

|Ruse (Rusçuk)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Bulgaria

|

|

1389

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Bulgaria

|

|

1393

|Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|Bulgaria

|Siege of Tarnovo

|

1395

|Nikopol (Niğbolu)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|

|

1395

|Ohrid (Ohri)

| Gropa Lordship

|North Macedonia

|

|

1395

|Krujë (Akçahisar) (First occupation)

|Principality of Albania

|

|

1396

| Zaharia Lordship of Sati

|

|Vassal

1396

|Silistra (Silistre)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|

|

1396

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|

|

1417

|Vlorë (Avlonya)

|Principality of Valona

|

|

1417

|Giurgiu (Yergöğü)

|20px Principality of Wallachia

|

|

1419

|Constanța (Köstence)

|20px Principality of Wallachia

|

|

1426

|Smyrna (İzmir)

|Turkey

|

|

1430

|Thessaloniki (Selânik)

|20px Republic of Venice

|Siege of Thessalonica

|

1431{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

|Ioannina (Yânya)

|20px Despotate of Epirus

|

|

1450

|Berat (Arnavut Belgradı, Berat)

| Lordship of Berat/20px League of Lezhë

|

|

1453

|Constantinople (Konstantiniye, Istanbul)

|20px Byzantine Empire

|Turkey

|Fall of Constantinople

|

1458

|Athens (Atina)

|20px Duchy of Athens

|Greece

|

|

1459{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

|Pristina (Priştine)

|Serbian Despotate

|KosovoDisputed territory

|

|

1460

|Bitola (Monastir, Manastır)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

North Macedonia

|

|

1460

|Skopje (Üsküp)

|20px Bulgarian Empire

|North Macedonia

|

|

1461

|Trebizond (Trabzon)

|Empire of Trebizond

|Siege of Trebizond

|

1461

|Sarajevo
(Saray-ı Bosna, Saraybosna) Founded by Ottomans

|

|Bosnia and Herzegovina

|

|

1461

|Jajce
(Royal Seat of the Bosnian King)Fall of the Kingdom of Bosnia

|20px Bosnian Kingdom

|Bosnia and Herzegovina

|

|

1466

|Iconium (Konya)

|

|

1468

|20px Bosnian Kingdom

|Bosnia and Herzegovina

|

|

1470

|Chalcis (Euboea-Eğriboz island)

|

|

|

1474

|Podgorica (Podgoriçe)

|

|

|

1475

|Bakhchisaray (Bahçesaray)

|20px Crimean Khanate

|

|Vassal

1475

|Feodosiya (Kefe)

|20px Republic of Genoa

|

|

1475

|20px Republic of Genoa

|

|

1475

|Azov (Azak)

|

|

|

|

1478

|20px Republic of Venice

|Siege of Shkodra

|

1479

|Shkodër (İşkodra)

|20px Republic of Venice

|Siege of Shkodra

|

1480

|Principality of Taranto

|Invasion of Otranto

|Brief acquisition

1484

|Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Akkerman)

|20px Principality of Moldavia

|

|

1514

|Arz-i Rûm (Erzurum)

|

|Turkey

|

|

1514

|Tabriz (Tebriz)

|

|

|

1514

|Ardabil (Erdebil)

|

|

|

1515

|

|

|

1515

|Kara Amid (Diyâr-i Bekr, Diyarbakır)

|

|

|

1515

|Urmiah (Ürmiye)

|

|

|

1516

|Antiochia (Antakya)

|

|

|

1516

|Aleppo (Halep)

|

|

|

1516

|Damascus (Trablus-i Şâm, Şam)

|

|

|

1516

|

|

|

1516

|

|

|

1516

|Jerusalem (Kudüs)

|

|

|

1516

|Jaffa (Yafa)

|

|

|

1517

|Cairo (Kâhire)

|Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

|

|

1517

|Damietta (Dumyat)

|Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

|Egypt

|

|

1517

|Mecca (Mekke)

|

|

|

1517

|Jeddah (Cidde)

|

|

|

1521

|Belgrade (Belgrad)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|

|

1522

|Rhodes (Rodos)

|20px Knights Hospitaller

|Siege of Rhodes

|

1526

|

|

|

1529

|Algiers (Cezayir)

|

|Capture of Algiers

|

1529

|Odesa (Hacibey)

20px Grand Duchy of Lithuania

|

|

1531

|

|Brief acquisition

1534

|Tunis (Tunus)

|

|Conquest of Tunis

|

1534

|Baghdad (Bağdat)

|Safavid Empire

|Capture of Baghdad

|

1537

|Klis (Clissa, Kilis)

|

|

1538

|

|Iraq

|

|

1538

|

|Capture of Aden

|

1538

|

|

|

1538

|Tighina (Bender)

20px Principality of Moldavia

|

|

1538

|Brăila (İbrail)

20px Principality of Wallachia

|

|

1539

|Herceg Novi (Yeni Hersek)

|

|Montenegro

|Siege of Castelnuovo

|

1541

|Buda (Budin)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|

1543

|Esztergom (Estergon)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Hungary

|Siege of Esztergom

|

1547

|

|

1551

|

|Invasion of Gozo

|Brief acquisition

1551

|Tripoli (Trablus-i Gârb, Trablusgarp)

|

|Siege of Tripoli

|

1552

|

|

|

1552

|

|Algeria

|Marching overland to Sahara

|

1552

|Timișoara (Temeşvar)

|20px Eastern Hungarian Kingdom

|Romania

|Siege of Temesvár (1552)

|

1555

|

|Algeria

|Capture of Bougie

|

1557

|

|

|

1566

|Szigetvár (Zigetvar)

20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Hungary

|Siege of Szigetvár

|

1567

|

|Yemen

|

|

1571

|Ulcinj (Ulqin/Dulcigno)

|20px Republic of Venice

|

|

1571

|Nicosia (Lefkoşa)

|

|

|

1578

|Akhaltsikhe (Ahıska)

|

|

|

1578

|

|

|

1578

|

|Libya

|

|

1578

|Tbilisi (Tiflis)

|

|Georgia

|

|

1578

|Ganja (Gence)

|

|

|

1578

|Baku (Bakü)

|

|Azerbaijan

|

|

1584

|

|Armenia

|

|

1587

|Hamadan (Hamedan)

|

|Iran

|

|

1590

|

|Russia (Dagestan)

|

|

1594

|Győr (Yanık)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Hungary

|

|

1596

|Eger (Eğri)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Hungary

|

1600

|Nagykanizsa (Kanije)

|20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Hungary

|Siege of Kanije

|

1645

|Chania (Hanya)

|

|Greece

|

|

1660

| Oradea (Varat)

20px Principality of Transylvania

|Romania

|

|

1663

| Nové Zámky (Uyvar)

20px Kingdom of Hungary

|Siege of Érsekújvár

|

1669

| Heraklion (Kandiye)

|

|Greece

|Siege of Candia

|

1672

|Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamaniçe)

|

|Ukraine

|

|

1678

|Chyhyryn (Çehrin)

|

|Ukraine

|

|

1683

|Perchtoldsdorf

|

|Battle of Vienna

|Brief acquisition

1713

|Khotyn (Hotin)

|20px Principality of Moldavia

|Ukraine

|

1852

|

|

|Vassal

1869

|

|

|Vassal

See also

Footnotes

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References

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