Fall of Philadelphia

Bapheus - Catalan campaign - Bursa - Pelekanon - Nicaea - Nicomedia - 1 Gallipoli - Adrian Opel - 2nd Gallipoli - Philadelphia - 1st Konstantin Opel - Thessalonica - 2 Konstantin Opel

The conquest of Philadelphia meant the fall of the last remaining Christian town in the interior of Asia Minor to the Muslim Ottoman Turks. The invading army also included a contingent of the Byzantine Empire, which had sunk to a vassal of the Turks.

The city had long may prevent their case to the Turks by paying protection money to the Turkish Ghazi, the robber hordes fell upon all those who refused to pay a poll tax ( jizya ), although not actually the city was under Islamic jurisprudence. Theoretically, the town belonged to the Byzantine Empire, but was cut off by the Ottoman hinterland of the kingdom and de facto autonomous.

In 1378, Manuel II Palaeologus Philadelphia promised the Turks in return for Ottoman support in the Byzantine civil war. But it seems as if the Philadelphians have refused to surrender, for only 1390 Bayezid ordered the two opponents in the Byzantine civil war, John VII and Manuel II to accompany his army on a campaign against the city. In the same year the city was captured by the Turks.

  • Battle ( Byzantium )
  • 1390
John VIII Palaiologos Battle of Bapheus Battle of Pelekanon Fall of Gallipoli Conquest of Adrianople by the Turks Siege of Constantinople (1422)
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