Battle of Gallipoli (1312)

The Battle of Gallipoli was fought between 1312 the Byzantine Empire and its ally with him against the Serbian Kingdom Turkopolen under Halil Pasha.

The Turks had plundered and ravaged the countryside before the battle. For two years, Thrace was in the hands Halil Pasha, what the local population made ​​it impossible at this time to till their land. Michael IX. presented on an army and drove the Turks on the peninsula of Gallipoli, to help him came two thousand Serbian horsemen of the king Stefan Uroš II Milutin while the Genoese fleet, the Turks from the sea blocked. Halil and his Turks were massacred in the ensuing battle. Some Turkopolen returned after the battle back to Byzantine service.